An Investigation Of Achievement Assessment Of Senior English From The Perspective Of New Curriculum Standards

As is known, language testing appears after language teaching and serves it all the way. The task of language teaching is to cultivate the language learners the abilities of using language, while the purpose of language testing is to provide us scientific techniques of measurement. Nowadays, more and more educators begin to pay much more attention to language testing.In China, based on The English Curricular Criteria for Full-time Compulsory Education and Common Senior Middle School (2001), the new English Curriculum Standards for Senior School was issued in 2003 and it has been carried out in four provinces since September, 2004. Shandong province is one of them. The English Curriculum Standards embodies the latest development of linguistics, ELT theory and practice and emphasizes on developing the abilities of language use. It also provides specific curricular content standards on language skills, language knowledge, emotional attitude, learning strategy and cultural awareness. So the criteria have offered a concrete basis for the implementation of the Senior English teaching and evaluation.This thesis aims to investigate the achievement assessment of Senior English from the perspective of new curriculum standards, which is attached great importance to by teachers, students, parents, etc. In accordance with the framework of communicative language abilities and Bachman's communicative language testing theory, traditional achievement tests are not perfect and comprehensive to assess the students'language use abilities. So the evaluation suggestions are put forward in the English Curriculum Standards. The investigations mainly focus on the current situation of achievement assessment.This thesis consists of six parts. Introducation gives a brief statement of the thesis. The first chapter presents the definitions of language abilities in different periods and gives a brief review on language testing in the developing process. In the light of the theories, the author pointed out that the comprehensive language use abilities referred in the English Curriculum Standards go beyond the category of...