The present paper is a report on a test development project that developed a framework and prototype of the Korean National English Ability Test for Secondary School Students. The test was a comprehensive test that included all four skills of language...
The present paper is a report on a test development project that developed a framework and prototype of the Korean National English Ability Test for Secondary School Students. The test was a comprehensive test that included all four skills of language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. For the secondary school level, three level tests were developed: S1 for 7th and 8th grades, S2 for 9th and 10th grades, and S3 for 11th and 12th grades. The revised 7th National Curriculum was the basis for the achievement criteria and for the test specifications. Because of the constraints of space, the present paper reports on the development of the listening test and the speaking test only, in terms of test specifications and procedures.