Design of Hardware and Software Systems for English Listening Test Platform

Author(s):  
Jing Fan
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Wuwuh Yunhadi

This study reports quality of content validity of items of  listening test of National Leaving Exam for SMA in Samarinda is constructed.  The quality was identified from task coverage, item difficulty, objective of item, and test format. This study used content analysis with qualitative design. The study revealed that content validity revealed three major findings. Task coverage is dominated by the first and the second year of SMA (8 items are from first year, 8 items are from second year, and 4 items are from third year of SMA).  Of 20 items, 9 (45%) are easy, 7 (35%) moderate, 4 (2o%) hard. The questions in the items are specified into 9 (45%) general, 5 (25%) comprehension, 4 (20%) application, and 2 (10%) analysis. The analysis on the Table of Specification reconstructed from the English listening test showed that the test has low content validity.  


2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoko Taguchi

This study offers some insights into second language learners’ strategic mental processes during a listening comprehension test. Fifty-four Japanese college students (26 males and 28 females) in an intensive English program took an English listening test and completed a strategy questionnaire immediately after the test. The questionnaire consisting of 42 Likert-scaled items and four openended questions addressed the students’ perceptions of listening strategies used for recovering from comprehension breakdown, compensating for comprehension, and reducing testing anxiety. The questionnaire also asked about the elements that caused comprehension difficulty for the students. The results of the Likert-scaled item section revealed a statistically significant difference between proficient and less proficient listeners in their perceived use of top-down strategies and reported elements of listening difficulty, but no difference in their use of repair, affective, or bottom-up strategies. Analyses of the open-ended responses showed that proficient listeners identified a greater range of strategies. 本研究では、集中英語課程に所属する日本人大学生54人(男子26人、 女子28人)が英語のリスニングテストを受け、そのあとすぐにリスニングス トラテジーに関するアンケートに記入した。アンケートは42のリカートスケ ールアイテムと4つの記述式アイテムから成り、学生がテストの最中効果的に 英語を聞き取るため、また、テスト不安を少なくするためにどのようなストラ テジーを使ったかを聞いた。また、アンケートは、どのような要素が聞き取り を困難にしたかについても聞いた。リカートスケールアイテムの分析の結果、 テストスコアの良い学生とその他の学生を比べて、トップダウンストラテジー の使い方とリスニングを困難にする要素に違いがあることが分かったが、リペ ア、アフェクテイブ、ボトム\アップストラテジーの使い方には違いは見られな かった。記述式アイテムの分析からは、テストスコアの良い学生はより幅の広 いストラテジーを使っていることが分かった。


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAI-LAI SUN ◽  
YUN-RUI ZHANG

This research is a comparative study of college entrance examination for English listening test in China and Japan. The comparison will be conducted between China’s CEEBA (College Entrance Examination in Beijing Area) and Japan’s NCT (National Center Test of Japan) in terms of difficulty of the tests and validity by checking whether or not they are measuring the items that are intended to measure. And according to the analysis and study some suggestions to improve the both tests are expected to be found out.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Wuwuh Yunhadi

This study reports quality of content validity of items of listening test of National Leaving Exam for SMA in Samarinda is constructed. The quality was identified from task coverage, item difficulty, objective of item, and test format. This study used content analysis with qualitative design. The study revealed that content validity revealed three major findings. Task coverage is dominated by the first and the second year of SMA (8 items are from first year, 8 items are from second year, and 4 items are from third year of SMA). Of 20 items, 9 (45%) are easy, 7 (35%) moderate, 4 (2o%) hard. The questions in the items are specified into 9 (45%) general, 5 (25%) comprehension, 4 (20%) application, and 2 (10%) analysis. The analysis on the Table of Specification reconstructed from the English listening test showed that the test has low content validity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meihua Liu ◽  
Hongliang Xu

The present research explored how foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) affected Chinese university students' English listening test performance and how proficiency and gender mediated the effects of FLLA on the latter. Two different populations from two universities in China answered the 20-item Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS) as well as a demographic questionnaire and took an English listening test. Analyses of the collected data revealed the following major findings: (a) Five latent factors underlay the FLLAS, (b) when working alone, FLLA significantly negatively predicted students' English listening test performance, and (c) when working with proficiency and gender, English proficiency level, gender and FLLAS2 (proficiency in English listening) significantly predicted students' English listening test performance. These findings confirm the negative effects of FLLA on students' English listening test performance. They also indicate that English proficiency and gender mediate FLLA's effects on the latter, with English proficiency not only directly but also indirectly affecting the latter.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Barry ◽  
Qijian Zhang ◽  
Pheobe Wenyi Sun ◽  
Andrew Hines

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heying Li

Context is a very important concept in linguistics, has a very important role in language acquisition. This paper, through analysis of the English listening test and application context theory to help the candidate to overcome the difficulty in English listening test.


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