Research on English Testing for General Academic Purposes in General Engineering Universities

DOI

10.2991/snce-17.2017.149How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EGAP testing; Academic skills; Academic literacy; Language competence

Abstract

EGAP is a vital branch of ESP whose testing is to satisfy the needs of the country and students to apply English in academic study and future career. This differs from the purpose of English for general purposes whose testing is to measure language competence alone. It is concluded that EGAP testing should aim to test students' ability in academic listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating as well as language competence. This paper emphasizes the significance and necessities of EGAP testing and explores its testing system in general engineering universities. Much research is to be done in this respect.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ke Xixiang
AU  - Yang Xue
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TI  - Research on English Testing for General Academic Purposes in General Engineering Universities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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