语言测试发展至今,研究领域不断拓充,研究方法日新月异,已经演变成一门跨学科、跨专业的综合性学科。而口语测试——语言测试的一个必不可少的环节——由于最能直接反映应试者的实际外语应用水平,越来越受到教育和科研工作者的重视。目前我国外语界在英语口语测试的以下方面已取得卓有成效的研究成果:测试形式、口试题型、评分方法、测试的信度和效度以及口语测试的反拨作用等。因为口语测试的独特性,主要依赖考官或 Since the development of language testing, the field of research has been continuously expanded and the research methods have evolved with each passing day. It has evolved into an interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary comprehensive discipline. Oral testing, an indispensable part of language testing, is getting more and more attention of educators and researchers because it can directly reflect the candidate ’s actual foreign language application. At present, the foreign language circles in our country have achieved fruitful results in the following aspects of Oral English test: the test form, the type of oral test, the scoring method, the reliability and validity of the test, and the counterproductive effect of the oral test. Because of the uniqueness of the spoken language test, it depends mainly on the examiner or