ABSTRACT

Recently, many universities in Vietnam have adopted the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) Listening and Reading test as a language exit test for non-English major students. This study aimed at examining the perceived impact of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test on English teaching and the mechanism by which this test impact occurred. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire at three large universities in Vietnam. The findings suggested that, generally, the use of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test as the sole exit requirement could have brought about a narrowing of the teaching content and a shift away from communicative language teaching, but its overall influence was, on average, not perceived as being strong. The form and intensity of the perceived test impact were related to a number of factors, some of which seemed to have operated remarkably differently from the way they do in other research contexts.

摘要

最近，越南许多大学已采用TOEIC（国际交流英语测验）听力和阅读测验作为针对非英语专业学生的语言出口测验。这项研究旨在检验TOEIC听力和阅读测验对英语教学的感知影响以及这种测验产生的机理。数据是通过越南三所大型大学的问卷调查收集的。研究结果表明，一般而言，将TOEIC听力和阅读考试作为唯一的出场要求可能会导致教学内容的缩小和与交际语言教学的偏离，但平均而言，其总体影响不是被认为是坚强的。可以感觉到的测试影响的形式和强度与许多因素有关，