| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| ·A General Description of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Introducing the Topic | 第10-11页 |
| ·Rationale and Justification of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·The Need, Motivation and Value of the Study | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Current Research | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第14-20页 |
| ·Culture and Language | 第14-16页 |
| ·Language and Testing | 第16-18页 |
| ·Culture and Testing | 第18-19页 |
| ·Summary of Previous Studies | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter III Language Testing and Intercultural Communication Act | 第20-35页 |
| ·Language Testing | 第21-27页 |
| ·Definition of Language Testing | 第21页 |
| ·The Purposes of Language Testing | 第21-23页 |
| ·Types of Language Tests | 第23-26页 |
| ·Essential characteristics of tests | 第26-27页 |
| ·Intercultural Communication | 第27-30页 |
| ·Definition of Communication | 第27-28页 |
| ·Definition of Culture | 第28-30页 |
| ·Language Testing——an Act of Intercultural Communication | 第30-35页 |
| ·Language Testing: a process of conveying messages between two languages and two cultures | 第30-32页 |
| ·Language Testing: a social-inter-actionist model of communication | 第32-33页 |
| ·Language Testing: a professional act of communication | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter IV Intercultural Noise in Language Testing Process | 第35-49页 |
| ·Noise in Communication | 第35-37页 |
| ·Intercultural Noise in Language Testing | 第37-44页 |
| ·Model of Testing as an Intercultural Communication Process | 第39-40页 |
| ·Intercultural Noise in the Testing Process | 第40-41页 |
| ·Problems in the Disturbed Communication | 第41-44页 |
| ·Noise Processor: the Course of Reducing Intercultural Noise | 第44-49页 |
| ·Identification of Intercultural Noise | 第45-46页 |
| ·Treatment of Intercultural Noise | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter V Rationale for Intercultural Noise Reduction in Language Testing | 第49-60页 |
| ·Actors of the Language Testing Act: Testees as Cultural Mediators | 第50-54页 |
| ·Role of the Testee | 第50-54页 |
| ·Object of the Language Testing Act: text as communicative interaction | 第54-58页 |
| ·Norms of the Language Testing Act | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter VI Strategies to Develop Noise Reducing Competence in Language Testing | 第60-77页 |
| ·Macro Strategies | 第60-63页 |
| ·Intercultural Awareness | 第61-62页 |
| ·Training Programs to Increase the Testee's Intercultural Awareness | 第62-63页 |
| ·Micro Strategies | 第63-77页 |
| ·Learning Strategies | 第63-70页 |
| ·Teaching Strategies | 第70-77页 |
| Chapter VII Conclusion | 第77-82页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第77-78页 |
| ·Implications | 第78-81页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第78-79页 |
| ·Methodological Implications | 第79-80页 |
| ·Didactic Implication | 第80-81页 |
| ·Limitations of Current Study and Suggestions for Further Study | 第81-82页 |
| References | 第82-87页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第87-88页 |
