| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Statement | 第4-7页 |
| List of Tables | 第7-9页 |
| Abbreviations and Special Terms | 第9-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Abstract in English | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第14-16页 |
| ·Origin of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Scope, purpose and significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Literature Review | 第16-30页 |
| ·A brief history of the development of language testing | 第16-20页 |
| ·Pre-scientific period | 第16-17页 |
| ·Psychometric-structuralist period | 第17-18页 |
| ·Communicative period | 第18-20页 |
| ·Understanding communicative language testing | 第20-23页 |
| ·Definitions of communicative language testing | 第20-21页 |
| ·Features of communicative language testing | 第21-23页 |
| ·Understanding second language oral testing | 第23-24页 |
| ·Development of second language oral testing | 第23-24页 |
| ·Communicative oral language testing | 第24页 |
| ·Understanding College English oral testing (CEOT) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Previous researches on CET-SET and local CEOT | 第25-30页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Survey | 第30-53页 |
| ·Survey instruments and its administration | 第30-31页 |
| ·Subjects | 第30页 |
| ·Instruments | 第30-31页 |
| ·Procedures | 第31页 |
| ·Results of the survey | 第31-49页 |
| ·Results of the questionnaire | 第31-46页 |
| ·Results of the interview | 第46-49页 |
| ·Analysis and discussion | 第49-53页 |
| ·Teachers’opinions about the feasibility and significance of communicative CEOT and the usefulness of local CEOT in Guangxi | 第49页 |
| ·Teachers’opinions about the English level of their students | 第49-50页 |
| ·Teachers’opinions about the suitable way to test their students in local CEOT and how local CEOT is actually implemented in Guangxi | 第50-51页 |
| ·Teachers’opinions about the way in which they should teach their students English and their students should learn English | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Implications and Applications | 第53-58页 |
| ·Implementing communicative CEOT in Guangxi | 第53-54页 |
| ·Lowering the difficulty level of the local communicative CEOT | 第54-55页 |
| ·Encouraging teachers to exert their creativity in designing better communicative CEOT models and what teachers should do | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion | 第58-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-64页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第64-69页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第69-70页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第70-77页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ | 第77-78页 |
| Thesis published during the post-graduate study | 第78-79页 |
