Teaching and Testing Spoken English

Abstract

This topic refers to the whole question of what one is doing in teaching English and a whole set of technical, psychological and statistical problems concerning the construction and administration and validation of tests. But in his talk, at the British Council, Professor P. Stevens, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Essex University, concentrated on some of the basic features of teaching Spoken English and talked in a very practical way about some of the particular problems involved in testing Spoken English.