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Listening Comprehension Observed in Midterm and Final Examinations in Oral Communication B and What It Suggests
Full text linkapplication/pdfThis paper aims to evaluate the listening comprehension tested in regular examinations of high school students in Oral Communication B, a course of study to improve English listening skills introduced by the Ministry of Education. The regular examinations researched in this paper consist of all the midterm and final examinations given to evaluate students' achievement levels through one school year. Each examination was divided into three parts : the first part testing listening comprehension (by tape-listening) , the second part testing knowledge of listening materials in the textbooks and workbooks for Oral Communication B (without tape-listening) , and the third part testing knowledge of the material from the grammar workbooks used during the course of study. The students focused on in this research were from two classes, representing two different levels of conventionally tested English aptitude (reading and writing). The data revealed that the class with advanced aptitude gained a higher level of achievement than the class with less-advanced aptitude in almost all of the three parts of each examination, and also that the former class attained the highest level in the actual listening comprehension part among the three parts
