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Considerations of Conducting Spoken English Tests for Advanced College Students

teaching and testing. How to assess college students&#8217, 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&#8217, 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&#160,students at advanced level.

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