Assessing Listening for Chinese English Learners: Developing a Communicative Listening Comprehension Test Suite for CET

ISBN-13: 9781138695566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 300 str.

Zhixin Pan

Opis

This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China. A coherent framework of communicative listening comprehension assessment is constructed as the theoretical foundation. Based on a survey of Chinese college students' English listening needs and an analysis of listening tasks in influential English listening course books and public tests, CLCT-4 and CLCT-6 test specifications are developed. Finally, sample papers are produced and posteriori studies are conducted to examine the difficulty and usefulness of the newly developed task type in two CLCT tests. As an example of successful integration of theory and practice, this research provides valuable insights into listening test development for other large-scale tests.

Spis treści

List of figures.  List of tables.  Acknowledgements.  List of Acronyms  Chapter 1 Introduction  Chapter 2 Communicative Testing: A Critical Review  Chapter 3 Real-life Listening: A Multidisciplinary Review Chapter 4 Communicative Listening Assessment: A Theoretical Framework  Chapter 5 Listening Needs Analysis  Chapter 6 Listening Task Analysis  Chapter 7 CLCT Test Specifications  Chapter 8 CLCT Test Evaluation  Chapter 9 Conclusions  Appendices.  References.  Index