| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| List of Acronyms | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Explorations and Literature Review | 第13-31页 |
| ·Language Testing and Language Teaching | 第13-14页 |
| ·Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Testing | 第14-18页 |
| ·Variables in SLA | 第15-18页 |
| ·Interfaces between SLA and Language Testing | 第18页 |
| ·From Language Performance (LP) to Communicative Competence (CC) to Communicative Language Ability (CLA) | 第18-30页 |
| ·A Sketch of LP, CC and CLA | 第19-24页 |
| ·Variations in Language Testing | 第24-25页 |
| ·An Overview of Communicative Language Testing | 第25-30页 |
| ·Learners’ Needs Analysis | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three The Status Quo of English Testing at the Primary Stage in China | 第31-47页 |
| ·The Status Quo of English Teaching at Primary Stage | 第31页 |
| ·Requirements of English Testing in the National English Curricular Standard(NECS) | 第31-32页 |
| ·A Sketch of Some “State-of-the-art” EFL Graded Tests at Primary Stage | 第32-35页 |
| ·The National English Achievement Test (NEAT) | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Cambridge Young Learners English Tests (CYLET) | 第34-35页 |
| ·Comments on the Two Testing Provisions | 第35-36页 |
| ·Problems and Reflections of Traditional English Testing at Primary Stage in China | 第36-47页 |
| ·Defects in Pursuing Reliability at the Cost of Validity | 第37-39页 |
| ·Defects in Testing Methods | 第39-42页 |
| ·Defects in Testing Tasks | 第42-43页 |
| ·Defects in Testing Contents and Materials | 第43-44页 |
| ·Defects in Testing Implementation | 第44-45页 |
| ·Defects in the Interpretation of the Test Scores | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Four Tentative Establishment of the Communicative English Testing Framework (CETF) for Students at Primary Stage | 第47-70页 |
| ·A Comprehensive Conception of the CETF for Students at Primary Stage | 第47-49页 |
| ·Implication of the CETF for Students’ at Primary Stage | 第49-53页 |
| ·Multiple Communicative Participants | 第50-51页 |
| ·Abundant Communicative Contents | 第51-52页 |
| ·Various Communicative Media | 第52页 |
| ·Diverse Communicative Formats | 第52-53页 |
| ·Characteristics of the CETF | 第53-55页 |
| ·Dynamic Testing Process | 第53-54页 |
| ·Communicative Relationship between Teachers and Pupils | 第54页 |
| ·Openness of Testing Resources | 第54-55页 |
| ·Affective Testing Atmosphere | 第55页 |
| ·Objectives of the CETF | 第55-58页 |
| ·To Broaden the Transmission Channels of the Testing Information | 第56-57页 |
| ·To Enrich the Transmission Contents of the Testing Information | 第57-58页 |
| ·To Achieve the Mutual Benefit | 第58页 |
| ·The Specific Operation of the CETF | 第58-70页 |
| ·The CETF Subframework for Testing of Speaking | 第58-62页 |
| ·The CETF Subframework for Testing of Listening | 第62-64页 |
| ·The CETF Subframework for Testing of Reading | 第64-66页 |
| ·The CETF Subframework for Testing of Writing | 第66-70页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| ·Recapitulation | 第70页 |
| ·Evaluation of the Present Study | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliograph | 第72-77页 |
| AppendixⅠ | 第77-81页 |
| AppendixⅡ | 第81-86页 |
