Testing And Early High School English Teaching

This paper raises question from the facts found in the teaching practice, which is many senior middle school students can't adjust their English-learning methods to which are actually needed in the senior middle school English learning at their starting period, especially in senior Grade One they can't adapt themselves to their English teachers' learning methods which in-evitaliy leads to the reports' decline and the cohesion problem between junior and senior middle school English teaching ,so the paper tries to open the beach at the senior and college entrance examinations, which are the most serious factors that affect basic English teaching. In theory it tries to analyse what is a test, the kinds of tests and their different functions to language teaching, the connection between tests and language teaching as well as the cohesion between junior and senior English teaching ,in which the emphasis is laid upon the huge backwash of test to teaching. And from the practice side the paper tries to draw the conclusion through comparing the contents of senior middle school entrance examination with that of college entrance examination ,so as to find the differences between them and look for the reason why they bring in the cohesion problem, we assumpt that too easy of the senior middle school entrance examination , text-centred, little focus on language-using ability ,are the main factors that lead to the incoherence .Then the paper shows the different parts that can't connect with each other in the incoherence problem, and furthermore it tries to inquire into some practical ways of solving it from the angel of testing. And besides, the paper also appeals to the society for the necessity of reforming the senior school entrance examination, and meantime appeals to our middle school language teacher ,never just cast their eyes only upon tests ,but also the cohesion of students' permanent development.