Testing is a universal feature of social life.Throughout history people have been put to the test to prove their capabilities or to establish qualifications.Language tests play an important role in many people's lives,acting as gateways at important transitional moments in education.The college English test paper was reviewed and checked against the test specifications to see its content coverage and representative.To evaluate the test,this includes item analysis,descriptive statistics,validity,and what we see as the strong points and the weaknesses of the test based on the analysis and the testing conditions,both of which provided validity evidence.In order to gather details of the test items,item analysis was done to find out the difficulty and discrimination of each item and identify misfit items for further discussion.
The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate the employment of the strategies among the Chinese college-level English learners in responding to compliments and the negative pragmatic transfer involved in their responses. The results show that the subjects tend to apply "Accepting" strategy in their responding to compliments and there does exist negative pragmatic transfer.
