Continuous assessment and its application in foreign languageteaching

Education is indispensable of assessment. The assessment for quality-oriented education is a comprehensive assessmenttowards students. It lays its emphasis not only on learning product, but also on learning process. This paper points out that continuousassessment can reflect the features and demands of the assessment for quality-oriented education by making a contrast between tradi-tional assessment and continuous assessment. And it takes learning diary, set up subject group and the file of studying, etc. to showhow to apply continuous assessment to foreign language teaching.