In Vietnam today there is an urgent demand for well-designed tests
of listening comprehension. Little attention has been given to this
problem. This field study is intended to provide guidance on the
design of listening comprehension tests and in particular for
intermediate level students at the Hanoi Foreign Language College
(HFLC).
The Field Study Report consists of six chapters. Chapter One gives a
brief introduction which covers the problem, aims, subjects
(testees) and the background of the Field Study Report.
Chapter Two deals with the purposes of testing in some detail,
setting this in the framework of the teaching-testing link, teachers
and testing, and students and testing. Test characteristics are
considered and the problem of sampling for test content is addressed.
Chapter Three concerns test items for listening comprehension. The
chapter begins with a short description of listening comprehension
and is followed by a survey of theorists on listening comprehension
together with the test items for listening that they suggest. Some
commonly-used standardised tests and their listening items are
discussed.
The chapter ends with a checklist of selected listening items
suitable for students at HFLC in Vietnam.
Chapter Four discusses the designing and trialling of test items for
listening comprehension, such as multiple choice, completion of a
taped talk, matching pictures with statements etc. The chapter
presents the results of the trialling of sample items and also deals
with correlations between the sample tests used.
Chapter Five deals with test design and development in general. It
clarifies the bases for test design and provides a checklist of
steps in the development of tests. In addition, the chapter includes
a resources inventory for listening test items.
Chapter Six presents the conclusions of the Field Study Report.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219133 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Loan, Nguyen Kim, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Nguyen Kim Loan |
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