The testing of listening comprehension: an introspective study1
The testing of listening comprehension: an introspective study1
复制标题
听力理解测试：一项内省性研究1
DOI：
10.1177/026553229100800105
复制
发表时间：
1991
期刊：
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
G. Buck
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
G. Buck
本研究采用口头报告的方法来研究听力测试是如何工作的，以及如何通过定量研究方法通常无法访问的过程影响测试成绩。六名内省者提供了四个主要领域的数据：简答测试方法对听力理解测量的影响;测试项目是否可以测量“更高层次”的认知过程;测试项目是否可以测量听众如何监控他们的解释的恰当性;以及问题预览如何影响理解和测试表现。访谈记录提供了大量与这些问题和相关问题有关的数据，本文的主要目的是介绍和解释这些数据。协议也表明了一个严重的困境，语言测试者的听力理解涉及远远超过应用语言知识产生一个命题表示的文本，而是一个推理的过程中，听众试图构建一个解释，这是有意义的，根据自己的评估情况，知识和经验。因此，往往没有明确、客观的标准来判断任何一种解释的适当性。这一影响进行了讨论。
The present research uses the verbal report methodology to examine how listening tests work, and how processes not normally accessible through quan titative research methods influence test performance. Six introspectees pro vided data on four main areas of interest: the influence of the short-answer test method on the measurement of listening comprehension; whether test items can measure 'higher-level' cognitive processes; whether test items can measure how well listeners monitor the appropriacy of their interpretation; and how question preview influences comprehension and test performance. The interview protocols provide a great deal of data relevant to these and related issues, the presentation and interpretation of which is the main purpose of this paper. The protocols also indicate a serious dilemma for language testers in that listening comprehension involves far more than the application of linguistic knowledge to produce a propositional representation of a text; rather it is an inferential process in which listeners attempt to construct an interpretation which is meaningful in the light of their own assessment of the situation, knowledge and experience. Thus there are often no clear, objective criteria against which to judge the appropriacy of any one interpretation. The implications of this are discussed.