简要回顾了外语测试的四个阶段 ,分析了各阶段测试法与当时的语言学、心理学等相关学科的理论 ,特别是与外语教学法的密切关系。重点阐述了交际测试的理论基础和实践 ,指出交际测试将成为世界性的外语测试主流。 This paper briefly reviews the four stages of the foreign language test and analyzes the relationship between the test method and the related linguistics and psychology and other relevant disciplines at that time, especially the foreign language teaching method. It focuses on the theoretical foundation and practice of communicative testing and points out that communicative testing will become the mainstream of foreign language testing in the world.