Testing specific communicative ability in academic contexts: lectures comprehension

Authors

  • Susana Llorián González

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael122443

Keywords:

academic listening, academic testing, lectures listening, audiovisual listening tests, academic discourse listening

Abstract

In this article we describe a research that is originated when we it is verified that the students of the university undergraduate and graduate programs, who are not Spanish-speakers, increasingly numerous, have problems to study, due to language barriers. In this scenario, specific admission and post-admission exams of Spanish, are becoming a necessity, since they could discriminate students who are able to successfully pursue university studies, on the one hand, and have a positive impact in courses of reinforcement and support to academic programs, on the other hand. In a preliminary study we found that lectures academic listening is the main obstacle to the engineering and architecture students in technical universities, the context of our research. For this reason, we developed a specific test of lectures listening. This article describes the collection of several validity evidences, which support the need to administer specific tests in the academic domain.

Published

2018-03-22

How to Cite

Llorián González, S. (2018). Testing specific communicative ability in academic contexts: lectures comprehension. Nebrija Journal of Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching, 12(24), 93–112. https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael122443

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Section

Thematic section "Computer Learners Corpora..."