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This paper describes the Speaking Test which forms part of the revised First Certificate of English (FCE) examination produced by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), and introduced for the first time in December 1996 (see First Certificate in English: Handbook, UCLES, 1997). The aim is to present the new test as the outcome of a rational process of test development, and to consider why the new design provides improvements in the assessment of speaking within the FCE context.
Saville et al. (Fri,) studied this question.