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Oral Summary Performance Based on the Corpus of Interpreting Competition and its Application to Language Evaluation
Summaries have long been seen as a main measure for developing and testing listening competence. The present study proposed a set of post listening summary measures and applied them to summary performance by three groups of students (higher level group, medium level group, lower level group) in a nationwide interpreting competition. The results showed that while measures like fluency, connectives, primary propositions and secondary propositions can effectively differentiate three student groups, other measures like accuracy, mistranslation and narration structure are found to be less effective. Based on these findings, this article provided suggestions and guidelines for teaching and listening testing.
SU Wei . Oral Summary Performance Based on the Corpus of Interpreting Competition and its Application to Language Evaluation[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2020 , 20(5) : 101 -109 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2020.05.011
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