文档介绍：中南民族大学
硕士学位论文
高校英语应用能力考试的反拨效应研究
姓名:路翩翩
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:外国语言学及应用语言学
指导教师:张立玉
20100501
A Study on the Washback of practical English Test for Colleges
摘要
反拨效应是指测试对教与学的影响。作为教育领域的一个重要研究课题,近
年来引起众多学者的广泛关注, 对其进行了一系列深入的理论和实证研究,这些
加深了人们对测试反拨效应的认识,一定程度上促进了测试和教学改革。
高校英语应用能力测试是面向高职高专学生的大规模标准化测试,关于测试
方法和内容等已有大量的研究,但是对于这项考试反拨效应的实证研究任然甚
少。
因此,本研究借鉴国内外对语言测试反拨效应的研究方法和模式,基于
Alderson&Wall 的反拨效应假设理论,试图就这项考试对高职高专英语教学的反
拨效应进行实证研究。其调查对象为武汉市内三所高职院校的共 30 名英语教师
和 300 名非英语专业学生,调查工具为问卷调查,课堂观察和访谈三种。
研究结果表明高校英语应用能力考试对高职英语教与学的态度、目标、时间
分配、选材及方法等方面都产生了既有正面也有负面的反拨效应。总体而言,负
面影响大于正面影响,对于学生的反拨效应大于对教师的反拨效应。
同时论文探讨了这些反拨效应的原因,包括考试的形式和内容,学校的政策,
以及老师和学生对考试的认识。研究结果的启示如下: 要求考试内容的真实性和
形式的多样性,呼吁学校对这项测试相关的政策进行改革;突出老师在英语教学
中的主导作用,倡导学生明确学习目标和在学习过程中采取自主学习和自我测量
法。
关键字:反拨效应;高校英语应用能力考试;英语教学;英语学习
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A Study on the Washback of practical English Test for Colleges
Abstract
Washback is defined as the effect or influence of the test on teaching and
learning. As an important research topic in language education, it has aroused wide
interest over the recent years. Many theoretical and empirical studies have been
carried out aiming to gain insights into this phenomenon. These studies have
deepened people’s understanding of washback and promoted the reform and
innovation in language testing and teaching.
Practical English Test for Colleges (PRETCO) is a large-scale national
standardized English Foreign Language (EFL) test for the students of Higher
Vocational Colleges (HVCs). Many researchers have studied it from its testing
methods and contents, while few of them have done the empirical studies.
As a result, in light of the previous research methods and models from home and
broad, this present study is meant to find out PRETCO washback on English teaching
and learning of HVCs base on Alderson and Wall’s Washback Hypotheses, involves
30 English teachers and 300 non-English majors from three vocational colleges in
Wuhan, bines three kinds of instrument