本文在106名国内大型英语口试评分员中调查了英语教师对调群?调核和调型等语调知识的储备情况?调查显示,评分员对语调知识的掌握不够系统和全面?具体来说,他们虽然具备基本的调群和调群切分知识,但不清楚哪些词类可作句重音和调核,也不甚了解语调的表态功能?研究认为,英语教师应加强语调知识学习,才能细化语调教学,切实帮助学生提高英语语调水平;口试评分员应定期参加语调培训,强化对相关知识的掌握以保证评测 信度?

This survey was conducted with the use of a questionnaire to investigate among 106 oral test raters their mastery of English intonation knowledge in terms of tonality, tonicity and tone. The results show that the raters do not have a good mastery of basic English intonation knowledge. Specifically speaking, most of them have the basic knowledge of tone groups, but they are unclear about the specific word categories which can be used as sentence stresses and nucleus. They are more familiar with tone types indicating request, affirmation, and demand than those of politeness, delight, and relaxation. This study offers some suggestions in two aspects: (1) teachers should consolidate their own intonation knowledge in order to set a good example for their students and secondary tone types should be paid more attention to in teaching; (2) oral test raters should receive regular intonation training to guarantee that they master basic intonation knowledge and different meanings conveyed by different tone types so that intonation will not be ignored in oral tests.