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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 An Overview of TEM4 and CET-6
1.2 Difficulty and Item Difficulty
1.3 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.4 Layout of the Study
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Listening Comprehension Testing
2.1.1 Main Definitions of Listening Comprehension
2.1.2 Factors Influencing Listening Comprehension Testing
2.1.3 Listening Comprehension Testing Abroad
2.1.4 Listening Comprehension Testing in China
2.2 The Theoretical Framework of CLA and TMF
2.2.1 Communicative Language Ability (CLA)
2.2.2 Test Method Facets (TMF)
2.3 Related Empirical Studies
2.3.1 Previous Study on Difficulty
2.3.2 Previous Study on TEM and CET
2.3.3 Previous Contrastive Studies
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Construction of the Experiment
3.1.1 Subjects
3.1.2 Instruments
3.2 Administration of the Experiment
3.3 Data Collection
Chapter Four Result Analysis and Discussion
4.1 Constitution of Content and Test Specifications
4.2 Task Characteristics
4.2.1 Task Type
4.2.2 Sentence Type
4.2.3 Topical Type
4.3 Test Result
4.3.1 An Overview of the Test Results
4.3.2 Item Difficulty
4.4 Questionnaire Survey Analysis
4.4.1 Response Analysis of Subjects
4.4.2 Analysis of an Open-ended Question
4.5 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications and Limitations of the Present Study
5.3 Suggestions for Future Research
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Appendix
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