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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background and Topic Selection
1.2 Research Status
1.3 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.4 Usage of Terms in the Thesis
1.5 Arrangement of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Reviews
2.1 Development Phases of Language Assessment and Language Ability Models
2.1.1 Development Phases of Language Assessment
2.1.2 Development Phases of Language Ability Models
2.2 Task-based Language Assessment
2.2.1 Basic Conceptions of TBLA
2.2.2 Why TBLA?
2.3 Perspectives on Modem Language Assessment
2.3.1 Development Trend of Modem Language Assessment
2.3.2 Performance Assessment
2.4 The Reality of Language Assessment in China
2.4.1 General Description of the Current Language Assessment
2.4.2 General Description of the Current Listening Comprehension Assessment
2.5 Summary of Chapter Two
Chapter Three Rationale Exploration on Task-based Assessment of Listening
3.1 Listening Comprehension
3.1.1 Nature of Listening Comprehension
3.1.2 Factors Affecting Listening Comprehension
3.1.3 The Process of Listening Comprehension
3.1.4 Listening Construct in Task-based Assessment of Listening
3.2“Tasks”in Task-based Assessment of Listening
3.2.1 What is Task?
3.2.2 Task Components
3.2.3 Investigating Listening Task Difficulty
Summary of Chapter Three
Chapter Four Empirical Research
4.1 Study Aims and Methods
4.2 Study Processes
4.2.1 The Tentative Test Implement
4.2.2 The Questionnaire Implement
4.2.3 The Interview Implement
Summary of Chapter Four
Chapter Five Data Analysis and Discussion
5.1 The Summary Statistics of the Empirical Research
5.2 The Validation of the Reliability and Validity
5.2.1 The Validation of the Test Reliability and Validity
5.2.2 Reliability Analysis of the Questionnaire
5.3 The Results Analysis of the Listening Test
5.3.1 Descriptive of Total Task Performance
5.3.2 Descriptive of Each Task Performance
5.4 The Questionnaires Analysis
5.5 Findings from the Interview
5.6 Discussion
5.7 Summary of Chapter Five
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements