抄録
SPOT is a gap-filling test which requires test takers to listen to an audio tape consisting of 60 isolated sentences and to fill in the blank on an answer sheet, each with a single hiragana character. However, as the former SPOT A-B was found not to be able to distinguish the proficiency between advanced and superior learners, we challenged making the Trial SPOT with high degree of difficulty for the purpose of examining learners' proficiency more exactly. This trial test contains of advanced grammatical items and also every question was read by two native speakers in high speed. This paper discusses the overview of the trial SPOT and the comparison of the test results administered to 50 advanced level learners and 50 Japanese native speakers.
