A Study of Theories and Methods to Measure EFL Listening Comprehension Skills with Special Reference to the National Center Test

在本研究中，主要的听力理解测试从问题的形式和内容上进行了检验。对国立中心考试、东京大学、托业考试、韩国高考的听力部分进行了比较和批判讨论。研究发现，CSAT对文章进行了精心挑选，以便最适合考查听者是否能运用某种听力理解策略，如数字处理、话语主题把握等。为了比较TOEIC和CSAT的成绩，CSAT听力测试中所有用韩语写的部分，即方向，选项短语和句子都被翻译成日语，以便没有学过韩语的日本英语学习者可以参加CSAT。托业和CSAT成绩之间存在显著的高相关性（r=0.74 (p=0.000)）。托业分数比从同一听者那里获得的CSAT分数变化更大。这意味着托业可以更详细地区分学习者的熟练程度。然而，CSAT可以提供更多的诊断信息，说明每个学习者可以使用哪种类型的听力理解策略，哪些类型的听力理解策略他或她不能使用。在这项研究中，听力理解测试是如何在西班牙产生和管理的也进行了检查。出乎意料的是，西班牙的英语教学还在发展中，听力测试似乎也没有韩国那么复杂。

In this study major listening comprehension tests were examined in terms of questioning formats and contents. Listening comprehension test parts of the National Center Test, University of Tokyo, TOEIC and the College Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT) in Korea were compared and critically discussed. It was found that CSAT has carefully selected passages so that they can be the most suitable to examine if listeners can utilize a certain type of listening comprehension strategy such as dealing with numbers, grasping the topic of the utterance and so forth. In order to compare the results of TOEIC and CSAT, all parts of CSAT listening comprehension tests written in Korean, namely, directions, option phrases and sentences, were translated into Japanese so that Japanese EFL learners who had not learned Korean could take CSAT. Significantly high correlation was found between the TOEIC and CSAT scores (r=0.74 (p=0.000)). The TOEIC scores were observed to be more varied than those of CSAT obtained from the same listeners. This implies that TOEIC can distinguish learners' proficiency levels in more detailed ways. However, CSAT can provide more diagnostic information on which type of listening comprehension strategy each learner can make use of and which type he or she cannot. In this study how listening comprehension tests are produced and administered in Spain were also examined. Contrary to our expectation, teaching English in Spain is found to be still developing, and listening comprehension tests seem not to be as sophisticated as those developed in Korea.