I came across a study on listening comprehension and the researcher has designed his own listening comprehension test. He has also adapted Cambridge Young Learners Listening Test in designing the listening comprehension test. Can we adapt the Cambridge Young Learners in designing our own listening comprehension test? How can i check the validity and reliability of the listening comprehension test that i have designed with reference to the Cambridge Young Learners' Listening test. Thank you.
Hello, you can definitely do that. We used CYL - adapted and always cited - for the evaluation of a primary bilingual education project. Especially the listening comprehension test only covered a part of what we wanted to know. So we developed it further, added more difficult questions and tasks to it. Also seeing&listening tasks via video&audio was implementet (video&audio comprehension). We checked quality criteria with a pretest in a same age learners` group beforehand and optimized it afterwords. This I can suggest and advise. Hope it helps you a little further - all the best!
Yes of course. In fact, listening is such an open skill to different materials. All you need to do is to create a conducive environment and get the students used to sound patterns and styles of speech of a particular dialects e.g. British, American etc. And please do visit the following link for additional resources:
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Hi,
You might want to ask Cambridge if they can provide you with data about their listening tasks (item analysis, task specifications, etc.). There is a contact on their page for requesting data:
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/research-and-validation/research-and-collaboration/
Then you can design your own tasks according to their specifications - if they are available, provided you explain in your test specification or in your study the reason why you chose to adapt the test in a certain way (e.g. if the content of a particular task was not relevant or has not been taught, you cannot test it, so you would need to design a suitable task for that on relevant content).
You would then need to pilot, analyse reliability etc. against Cambridge YLE Exams.
Good luck with your work!
It is very helpful. I think you have to get permission from Cambridge.
Dear researchers, in the case of adapting the mentioned test, is there any need for pilot study of the test for recognizing reliability and running item analysis on the items of the test?