美国英语水平考试特点及新动向

英语作为外语的测试在美国有很多种类，形成了一种庞大的教育产业，在美国国内外都有很大的影响。文中首先介绍了其中主要种类的测试内容、方法、形式和现状，分析了这些测试的某些最新的动态和发展趋势，并就这些测试对我国英语测试的若干启示进行了探讨。

The Main Features and New Tendencies of EPT in America

The Test of English as a Foreign Language is of many varieties and forms in the United States,which has emerged into a large industry of education with great influence both domestically and internationally.The paper introduces the major types of such test,focusing upon its contents,methods ,forms and its current situation.Then the paper concentrates on the latest development and tendencies of the test and what we can learn from it to improve our foreign language testing stsyem.