Re: (teach) Re: CET and oral test

Nick wrote:
> The syllabus for CET, TEM4, TEM8 oral are widely available.
> All are available from Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

My comment:

Maybe these oral English tests are taken more in the Shanghai area. Does anyone have direct experience of actively preparing any student for a TEM 8 oral exam? As I have said before, in 5 years teaching at 2 universities in Northeast China I have never known of any student taking a TEM oral exam.  It's not an oral English test notice, it's a bilingual test. For me this says an awful lot about the status of spoken English in China.

Russ Taylor


         
       
       








       


       
       


     

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