抄録
The purposes of this paper are to report on the development of a listening comprehension test based on the Textbook "Hi, friends! 2", and to show the listening comprehension ability of sixth graders who took this test. In order to familiarize pupils with the sounds and basic expressions of foreign languages, we attempt to develop a listening comprehension test to measure how sixth graders acquire their listening comprehension ability after 35 hours' of foreign language activities in one academic year. The test we developed can be considered as an achievement test, and consists of six types of questions, evaluating the degree of children's listening ability from the viewpoints of these six question types. The results of the test gave us the opportunity to improve our lessons. An analysis of the data shows that "bottom-up listening" is easy for children, but that it is difficult for children to listen to summaries of the contents. We have to construct our lessons so as to improve children's "top-down listening" abilities.
