Assessing Listening for Chinese English Learners: Developing a Communicative Listening Comprehension Test Suite for CET by Pan Zhixin (Hardcover, 2016)
This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China. Following the principles of communicative testing in general and test construction approach proposed by Bachman and Palmer (1996) in particular, the project develops CLCT for CET-4 and CET-6. The research begins with the construction of frameworks of listening task characteristics and communicative listening ability. Subsequently, 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 a series of posteriori studies are conducted to examine the difficulty and usefulness of the newly developed notes-completion task type in two CLCT tests. As an example of successful integration of communicative testing theories and test construction practice, this research provides valuable insights into listening test development for other large-scale tests.
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138695566
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229696334
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Book Title
Assessing Listening for Chinese English Learners: Developing a Communicative Listening Comprehension Test Suite for CET
Author
Pan Zhixin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
567g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Pan Zhixin
Series Title
China Perspectives
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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