Literature Review on the Construction of Formative Assessment System in College English Reading Teaching

Yanzhi MENG

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This paper reviews the previous researches home and abroad on the construction of formative assessment system in foreign language teaching, especially the teaching of reading for English majors, which aims to point out the problems of the present course assessment methods used in the reading course for English majors, and highlight the necessity of building an assessment system with the characteristics of English reading course. The author hopes the present study can promote the teaching reform of English reading course, and furthermore improve the quality of talent training for English majors as well as translation majors.

 


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ormative assessment; English reading; Teaching reform

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