On The Relationship Between IELTS Teaching And Western Culture Background---开题报告

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the world’s most popular high stakes English-language test for study, work and migration, with more than 2.5 million tests taken each year.IELTS assesses all of your English skills — reading, writing, listening and speaking — and is designed to reflect real life use of English — at study, at work, and at play.The IELTS test is developed by some of the world’s leading experts in language assessment. It has an excellent international reputation, and is accepted by over 9,000 organizations worldwide, including schools, universities, employers, immigration authorities and professional bodies.IELTS is the most widely accepted English language test that uses a one-on-one speaking test to assess your English communication skills. This means that you are assessed by having a real-life conversation with a real person. This is the most effective and natural way of testing your English conversation skills.You can choose from two versions of the test –  IELTS Academic or IELTS General Training – depending on the organization you are applying to and your plans for the future. Both versions of the test are made up of four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. IELTS results are graded on the unique IELTS 9-band scale.

IELTS tests English as it is used in real life. Unlike other tests, it provides a realistic and reliable score of a candidate’s ability across all four language skills – listening, reading, writing and speaking.The Speaking test is a face-to-face interview with a certified examiner. This gives an accurate assessment of a candidate’s ability to speak English. It’s personal, interactive and as close to a real-life situation as you can get.IELTS tests the use of English for study, work and life. You can be sure that an IELTS score demonstrates real ability, not the result of rote-learning or revising for a written exam.It’s a truly global test which reflects and respects international diversity.

IELTS has strict test design, development and validation processes. These processes ensure that every version of the test is of a comparable level of difficulty. So every test around the world provides valid, consistent results.The quality of the IELTS testing system is underpinned by an extensive program of research, validation and test development.IELTS test material is developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment using the following stages: commissioning; editing; pretesting; analysis and banking of material; standards fixing; and question paper construction.Test writers from different English-speaking countries develop IELTS content so it reflects real-life situations around the world. It is unbiased and fair to all cultures and countries.In addition to this test development and validation, the IELTS Test Partners commission academic research on aspects of the test and its uses. See the Researchers section of this website.

How to deal with this seemingly no obvious actually involved in everywhere in the article the culture differences? In this paper, through the observation of the current teaching and further academic research, summarizes several in IELTS preparation may lie in Chinese and western cultural differences, improve the efficiency of IELTS preparation, achieve ideal results.

 IELTS is the International English Language Testing System of abbreviation in Chinese, is a major English exam for foreign students and immigrants. IELTS English test results recognized by the countries and regions in Europe and Australia. For people who want to study or live abroad, IELTS has a very important impact for them. Among them, listening and reading are the focus of IELTS, but because of cultural differences between East and West, they are also IELTS exam difficulty, brought great distress to candidates. Therefore, in order to improve the standard of English, passed the IELTS test, we must attach importance to understanding Western cultural background.This reading and listening in the background knowledge and in-depth analysis of the application of Chinese and Western cultures, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures.

The Paper Outline 

Introduction

1.1 IELTS test in China

1.2 analysis of the IELTS score of Chinese students in recent years

1.3 the problems of Chinese students preparing for IELTS

2.Literature Review 

2.1 the relevant research on the IELTS test in China

2.1 Foreign Studies on IELTS

3.Research Study

3.1 on the expression of Chinese and its influence factors

3.2 on the expression of English and its influence factors

3.3 the importance of western culture in IELTS

3.4 Cultural factors in the IELTS test and its influence on the candidates

4.Discussion

4.1 the penetration of western culture in IELTS Listening

4.2 the penetration of western culture in IELTS reading

4.3 the penetration of western culture in IELTS Writing

5.Conclusion

6.Bibliography  

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