| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORIES CONCERNING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTS | 第12-24页 |
| ·THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILITY | 第12-18页 |
| ·Hymes’model of communicative competence | 第12-13页 |
| ·Canale and Swain’s model of communicative competence | 第13-14页 |
| ·Bachman’s model of communicative language ability | 第14-18页 |
| ·THEORIES CONCERNING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING | 第18-24页 |
| ·The development of communicative language testing | 第18-20页 |
| ·Characteristics of communicative language testing | 第20-24页 |
| CHAPTER 3 STUDY ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION | 第24-33页 |
| ·THE ACTIVE NATURE OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE | 第24-28页 |
| ·The active nature of listening comprehension | 第24-27页 |
| ·Characteristics of spoken language | 第27-28页 |
| ·DEFINING THE LISTENING CONSTRUCT | 第28-30页 |
| ·PROBLEMS IN PRESENT LISTENING TESTS | 第30-33页 |
| CHAPTER 4 MEASURING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILITY IN THE TESTING OF LISTENING | 第33-54页 |
| ·THE CHOICE OF LISTENING MATERIALS | 第33-41页 |
| ·Length of the input | 第33-34页 |
| ·Addressees of the input | 第34-35页 |
| ·Redundancy | 第35-37页 |
| ·Genuineness | 第37-39页 |
| ·Genres | 第39-41页 |
| ·THE DESIGN OF LISTENING TASKS | 第41-54页 |
| ·Specifics in task design | 第42-44页 |
| ·Providing clear and explicit instructions | 第42页 |
| ·Making even distribution of new information | 第42-43页 |
| ·Presenting the audio text a second time | 第43-44页 |
| ·Designing different listening tasks | 第44-54页 |
| ·Multiple-choice items | 第44-47页 |
| ·Other listening tasks | 第47-54页 |
| CHAPTER 5 A TENTATIVE LISTENING COMPREHENSION TEST MEASURING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE ABILITY | 第54-61页 |
| ·THE DEVELOPING OF THE SAMPLE TEST | 第54-57页 |
| ·Proper source materials | 第54-55页 |
| ·Design of the test tasks | 第55-56页 |
| ·Description of the tasks and the text types | 第56-57页 |
| ·ADMINISTRATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL TEST | 第57页 |
| ·General introduction of the subjects | 第57页 |
| ·Method | 第57页 |
| ·TEST RESULTS ANALYSIS | 第57-61页 |
| ·Analysis of test scores | 第57-58页 |
| ·Analysis of the mistakes | 第58-59页 |
| ·Analysis of the questionnaires | 第59-61页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第61-62页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第62-65页 |
| APPENDICES | 第65-76页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第76页 |
