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Considerations of Conducting Spoken English Tests for Advanced College Students

teaching and testing. How to assess college students’, speaking ability within TEFL teaching programs at universities has become more important during the past years.However, it remains a difficult task for many TEFL teachers to conduct a reliable and valid speaking test for English-majored students. This phenomenon is widespread among universities in Taiwan. This paper provides a notional discussion of adoptingtask approach as a valuable means of assessing English majors’, speaking proficiency.Although task-based approaches still need much investigation both theoretically and empirically, it is believed that a task-oriented approach is a valid assessment of the productive communicative ability of the test taker, especially for English-majored ,students at advanced level.

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