Analyzing Tests for Curriculum and Materials Development  

作　　者：Mark Robinson 

机构地区：[1]Shantou University, Shantou, China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2011年第10期613-621,共9页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：ELP （English Language Proficiency） testing is both time-consuming and wasteful if the texts are used merely as tools for assessment. CDA （Critical Discourse Analysis） is an approach that allows for text, processing and social analyses. This paper focuses on the problem-solution discourse pattern in a text selected from the responses of 86 Chinese law school freshmen to a writing test prompt that addressed problems with learning English. The text was compared and contrasted with the response of the same subject as a senior to the identical prompt. The objectives of the CDA were to investigate what constraints were placed on contents, relations and subjects in terms of discourse and to describe, interpret and explain formal features that function to elicit experiential, relational and expressive values simultaneously in the texts. Further analyses of such texts may contribute to ESP （English for Specific Purposes） curriculum and materials development for non-English majors

关 键 词：CDA （Critical Discourse Analysis） ESP （English for Specific Purposes） ELP （English Language Proficiency） problem-solution pattern 

分 类 号：G633.41[文化科学—教育学]