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TEM-4 (Test for English Majors Grade 4) An Introduction •英语专业4级统考介绍 • Speaker: Wu Jianping (Xiamen University) • 介绍人：厦门大学吴建平 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. A Brief History • Based on the Teaching Syllabus for English Majors in universities and colleges, Written Test,TEM-4 was designed and organized by the National Education Committee of PRC around the late 1980s and came into actual practice in 1990. In 1997, the Syllabus for TEM-4 designed by a group of Chinese specialists and approved by the National • Education Committee of PRC was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Now Written Test,TEM-4 has come into being for nearly 14 years. In the course of the period, it went through 3 stages. • 3 stages: • Tentative and rough stage(1990-1993) • More mature and comprehensive stage(1994-1996) • Regular stage(1997 onwards) • Starting from 1996, Oral Test, TEM-4 is now a regular test but not yet a popular one. • The English majors of Xiamen University took part in TEM-4 as early as 1990.So far the English majors of Xiamen University have taken 13 TEM-4 in all. The average passing rate of the English majors of Xiamen University has stayed at 96% (varying from 92% to 98%) all these years. The Purpose of TEM-4 • TEM-4 is made up of written test and oral • test.Its purpose is • 1）To have a comprehensive test of the English majors at the end of their second years study to see whether they have met every requirement stipulated in the Teaching Syllabus for English Majors, whether they have acquired every basic skill • in using English(i.e. speaking, listening, reading and writing) and whether they have mastered English grammatical structures, words and expressions. • 2 ）To evaluate the output of teaching efforts and prom