Multiple-Choice Listening Tests: Spoken Choices or Written Choices?

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Listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. Therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. The present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for Persian language Learners. In fact, this study answers this question that whether a Persian listening test with spoken choices would be efficient in measuring learners’ listening proficiency or a test with written choices has a better effectiveness. To do so, a researcher-made oral and written multiple-choice listening test was designed (each of which with 10 items). The research was conducted in a survey and the population included all learners in Persian Language Center in Imam Khomeini International University, among whom a total number of 36 applicants were randomly selected.  Their ages ranged 18 to 25 years old and they were studying at advanced level. The results, analyzed through SPSS, showed applicants considered written format of listening test as more appropriate although they had better performance in oral format of this skill.

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  • Receive Date: 22 April 2015
  • Accept Date: 22 April 2015

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