A STUDY OF THE COSTRUCTION OF AN ENGLISH AURAL COMPREHENSION TEST FOR THE THIRD GRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
1969 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 82-84,132
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1969 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 82-84,132
An English aural comprehension test was devised, which consists of thirty items under six categories.It was administered through the network of NHK, and was standardized upon the sample of 1267 third grade middle school students in Hokkaido. Analysis of the data revealed that though there was some sex difference in the mean scores (16. 07 for males, 15. 24 for females), the scores were almost mormally distributed within the range of 0 and 29, with the mean of 15, 64 in terms of the whole sample.
The correlation coefficient of this test with a paper English achievement test was O. 78, which figure indicates that the aural comprehension ability is highly related to the abilities required for writing and reading English in the third grade students. As this aural comprehension test was tape-recorded by a Japanese teacher in English, one will nowbe recorded by a foreign teacher speaking standard English.
