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Ever since the emergence of computer in 1950s and its application in many practical areas of science and educational disciplines, Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) has been gradually implemented to the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching, and a computer-based speaking test has become an indispensable component of an EFL integrated language skill test. Experts and scholars from both computer application technology and EFL instructors have conducted a certain number of studies concerning computer-assisted English speaking test. Since validity and reliability are the most essential elements of a high quality language test, based on the communicative language teaching approach, an experiment at the first author’s English Audio-video Speaking Course (EAVSC) in a digital language lab was carried out to investigate the usefulness of a computer-assisted English speaking test within the framework of Communicative Language Testing (CLT). Through a series of statistical analyses with SPSS software, it can be concluded that the validity and reliability of the computer-assisted English speaking test can be achieved within the framework of CLT. It also analyzes the backwash of the test format as well as its pedagogical implications in further related studies. Keywords—CALL; validity; reliability; English speaking test; EFL teaching; CLA; CLT 3

On the Validity and Reliability of a Computer-assisted English Speaking Test