A Survey Of The Oral English Competence Of Grade One Students In Senior High Schools In Suzhou

This thesis offers an investigation of the current condition of the oral English competence of senior high school students in China. For that purpose, Professor Liu Qin's assessment system is applied on a group of some 30students from the first grade of Tian Kian Bing Senior High School in Suzhou. As the findings of a detailed analysis of the data indicate that the overall level of students'oral proficiency is in a number of ways less than satisfactory, the currently much recommended"task-based"approach in oral English teaching to students of this level fails inevitably to deliver the expected results.