An Examination of the Confounding in Measures of Foreign Language Listening Comprehension

Most current foreign language listening comprehension tests require examinees to read and understand multiple choice (MC) items printed in the test booklet in order to make responses. As a result, reading is confounded with listening in such tests. This study proposed a true-false (T-F) listening test as an alternative to reduce the confounding problem in the traditional listening test.

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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2014

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• Ku, Earl Juang-Ell

• Education, Tests and Measurements

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(UMI)AAI8209599

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68781