Testing Listening Skills: A Selected Bibliography

The International Research Foundation for English Language Education

ASSESSING SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING SKILLS: SELECTED REFERENCES (last updated 5 September 2012)

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Bae, J., & Bachman, L.F. (1998). A latent variable approach to listening and reading: Testing factorial invariance across two groups of children in the Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program. Language Testing, 15(3), 380-414.

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Brown, D., & Barnard, H. (1975). Dictation as a learning experience. RELC Journal, 6(2), 42-62.

Buck, G. (1988). Testing listening comprehension in Japanese university entrance examinations. JALT Journal, 10(1 & 2), 15-42.

Buck, G. (1991). The testing of listening comprehension: An introspective study. Language Testing, 8(1), 67-91.

Buck, G. (2001). Assessing listening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Buck, G., & Tatsuoka, K. (1998). Application of rule-space methodology to listening test data. Language Testing, 15, 118-142.

Buck, G., & Tatsuoka, K. (1998). Application of rule-space procedure to language testing: Examining attributes of a free response listening test. Language Testing, 15(2), 199-157.

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Canale, M., Child, J. R., Jones, R. L., Liskin-Gasparro, J. E., & Lowe, P. (1984). The testing of reading and listening proficiency: A synthesis. Foreign Language Annals, 17(4), 389- 391.

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