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ELT Journal 1999 53(1):42-51; doi:10.1093/elt/53.1.42
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Point and counterpoint

Assessing speaking in the revised FCE

Nick Saville and Peter Hargreaves

Group Manager for Test Development and Validation within the EFL Division of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) since 1994. His own research interest is in the development and validation of procedures for oral assessment, and he was a member of the UCLES development team that worked on the revision of the FCE Speaking Test. E-mail: <saville.n{at}ucles.org.uk>
UCLES as Director of the EFL Division after working for the British Council for over twenty years. His early background in ELT was in teacher training, but he moved into testing with the Council after obtaining his doctorate in the discipline grammar of English. He now heads a team of about 70 staff at UCLES, working on the Cambridge EFL examinations and Integrated Language Teaching Schemes.

This paper describes the Speaking Test which forms part of the revised First Certificate of English (FCE) examination produced by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), and introduced for the first time in December 1996 (see First Certificate in English: Handbook, UCLES, 1997). The aim is to present the new test as the outcome of a rational process of test development, and to consider why the new design provides improvements in the assessment of speaking within the FCE context.


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