Suggestions for Construction of Communicative Listening Test from Pragmatic Inference Perspective

摘要

This paper explores how communicative listening comprehension in general, and communicative listening test design during English testing in particular, can benefit from pragmatic inference.Several methods were adopted for the present paper such as interview, questionnaire and the classroom observation in order to give the clear and useful suggestions.Based upon the various researches, some original guidelines to teachers for constructing listening test during English teaching are provided from the new perspective of pragmatic inference, which can facilitate the teachers and students to adjust their teaching plans and studying methods.The paper gave suggestions to the teachers from the perspective of listening tests constructing, which is rare in previous study.