As an integral part of language ability,phonological competence plays a pivotal role in language teaching,learning and assessment.However,the system of evaluating English phonological competence in China is far from mature.Based on a comprehensive review of the revision of CEFR Phonological Control Scale,it is argued that it is high time that China's Stand-ard of English Phonological Competence should be developed.Three suggestions are thus proposed.First,the intelligibility principle should be adopted to guide the whole development process;second,a hybrid form including a global scale of overall description of intelligibility and an analytic scale of various construct components of pronunciation competence could be used;finally,the data-driven approach should be followed which integrates corpus analysis and analysis of experts'rating process and their ratings,in an attempt to enhance the scale's validity.
phonological competenceCEFRPhonological Control Scale
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