An attempt to develop a listening test and teaching materials focusing on phonetic aspects

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The purpose of our project is to make an English listening test which can precisely predict the learner's phoneme perception skills. To attain this goal we conducted a preliminary research to see how existing listening tests can predict this ability of the learner's. Through the dictation test and interview to the learners, it was found that the learners who are regarded to have the same level of listening comprehension ability differ in their overall and individual consonant perception skills. The result of a minimal pair test of English initial consonants of mono-syllabic words shows that percentage of correct answers didn't differ much, but reaction time for answering each question differ a lot between the learners and between the test items. From these results it is clear that the existing listening tests cannot predict the learner's consonant perception skills. Based on the findings we obtained through a series of studies, we plan to produce a reliable listening test.