| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-10页 |
| Chapter Two Understanding Listening Comprehension | 第10-18页 |
| ·The Concept of Listening Comprehension | 第10-12页 |
| ·Characteristics of Spoken Texts (Speech) | 第12-14页 |
| ·Speech Consists of Sounds | 第12-13页 |
| ·Speech Uses Different Languages | 第13页 |
| ·Speech Happens and Vanishes Quickly | 第13-14页 |
| ·Speech Has Environmental Interference | 第14页 |
| ·Differences between First-and Second-language Listening | 第14-18页 |
| ·Knowledge of First-language | 第15-16页 |
| ·Knowledge of Second-language | 第16-17页 |
| ·Compensatory Skills for Second-language Listeners | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Three Defining the Listening Construct | 第18-36页 |
| ·Definition of a Listening Construct | 第18页 |
| ·Theoretical Basis for Defining a Listening Construct | 第18-23页 |
| ·Divisibility Hypothesis | 第18-20页 |
| ·Unitary Competence Hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Framework of Communicative Language Ability (CLA) | 第21-23页 |
| ·Defining a Listening Construct | 第23-36页 |
| ·Defining a Competence-based Listening Construct | 第24-27页 |
| ·Defining a Task-based Listening Construct | 第27-29页 |
| ·Defining a Construct Based on the Interaction between Competence and Task | 第29-32页 |
| ·Defining a Default Listening Construct | 第32-36页 |
| Chapter Four Communicative Listening Comprehension Tests for National College English Test (CET) | 第36-54页 |
| ·Overview of CET and Listening Comprehension Parts of CET | 第36-39页 |
| ·National College English Test | 第36-37页 |
| ·Listening Comprehension Parts of CET | 第37-39页 |
| ·Suggestions for Developing Communicative Listening Comprehension Tests for CET | 第39-54页 |
| ·Test Usefulness | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Premise: Target Listening Domains and Tasks | 第41-43页 |
| ·General Requirements for the Input Discourse and Test Tasks | 第43-45页 |
| ·Concise Analysis of Some Samples of CET Band-4 | 第45-49页 |
| ·Tentative Suggestions for the Listening Comprehension Tests of CET | 第49-54页 |
| Chapter Five Evaluation and Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-60页 |
| Appendix | 第60-65页 |
| Abstract | 第65-68页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第68-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71-72页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第72页 |
