This book, new which means application of new method, research on new problems and development of new test and comprehensive which means that it covers the large number of aspects of the research on spoken test, combining theory with practice, is composed of from eight aspects, that is, (1) the historical development of spoken test; (2) spoken ability; (3) design and development of spoken test; (4) introduction to the main spoken tests domestic and abroad; (5) task types and compilation skills of spoken test; (6) assessment method and score credit; (7) the influential factors of the performance in spoken test; (8) interview-type spoken test. As a comprehensive research combining theory and practice, this book does not only involve theoretical exploration related to spoken test, but also includes quite a few empirical research cases, and some researches in this book are firstly applied in the Chinese spoken test cycle. - from Amzon