Development of Communicative Listening Comprehension Test

Author: Pan Zhixin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is divided into three main parts. Part 1 includes the first three chapters, covering the fundamental theories of communicative listening comprehension tests. Among them, the first chapter introduces the general characteristics and principles of communicative testing methods, as well as Bachman and Palmer's (1996) test development approach; the second chapter explores the psychological and social aspects of listening behaviors in real-life contexts; and the third chapter establishes a theoretical framework system for communicative listening comprehension tests based on this foundation. Part 2 describes several empirical studies conducted during the development phase of the CLCT test specifications. Chapter 4 details a questionnaire survey on the listening needs of college students in English; Chapter 5 analyzes listening tasks in domestic and international listening textbooks and large-scale tests; and Chapter 6 describes the CLCT-4 and CLCT-6 test specifications established through the integration of these research findings. The third part is Chapter 7, which reports the methods and results of evaluating the difficulty and practicality of the newly introduced note-completion in the designed CLCT-4 and CLCT-6 tests. The final Chapter 8 provides a summary of the entire book. This book combines language testing theory with language test development practice, serving as a successful example of test design. It is well-structured, logically organized, accurately worded, and supported by detailed data, offering insights for test designers, developers, and researchers in various language tests, as well as serving as a valuable reference for language teachers. The book is divided into three chapters, introducing the fundamental theories of communicative listening comprehension tests, narrating several empirical studies conducted during the development phase of the CLCT test specifications, and reporting the methods and results of evaluating the difficulty and practicality of the newly introduced note-completion in the designed CLCT-4 and CLCT-6 tests.