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AN INVESTIGATION OF CONSTRUCTS OF SECOND LANGUAGE
LISTENING TESTS. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 184
This study investigated the operationalized
constructs of second language listening measured by
a standardized English proficiency test. The
theoretical analysis defined the listening abilities
that constituted the operationalized constructs. The
empirical analyses validated the effectiveness of
the listening abilities and tested a hypothesis
about the operationalized listening construct. The
listening abilities were analyzed based on three
aspects: language knowledge unique to listening,
cognitive and comprehension processes implicated by
items tasks, and stimulus features. The hypothesis
of this study posited two factors of operationalized
listening constructs: one was related to language
knowledge and the other to cognitive comprehension
factors. The exploratory factor analysis extracted
two factors confirming that the proposed listening
abilities were effective means of finding underlying
factors of listening constructs. The confirmatory
factor analysis successfully verified a model that
substantiated the hypothesis. The model displayed
moderate proportions of variances accounted for by
the two factors and covariance of certain
measurement errors.
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