リスニングテストに於ける技能分離可能性

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Listening tests involve two types of comprehension question according to language skills to be tested. Literal questions measure the ability to understand the propositional meaning of a message, whereas inferential questions attempt to measure the ability to interpret the illocutionary meaning implied in the message. The purpose of the present investigation is to determine whether the ability to make pragmatic inferences can be measured along the same dimension as the ability to understand information at the literal level. In other words, this study aims at investigating whether or not there are two distinct traits. A four-option multiple-choice, 50-item listening comprehension test was developed and administered to 256 Japanese learners of English. Skills judgements, reliability, IRT-based approaches and factor analyses were used for checking skills separability. The results show that the ability to interpret an utterance cannot be measured along the same dimension as the ability to comprehend a message literally, although the two traits are highly correlated.
全国英語教育学会の論文