Photocopiable Oxford University Press 018 Test Specifications Test development and validation 2018

Part
No. 
tasks
No. items
Structure
Testing focus
Part 1
5
5
Multiple choice – picture options
Five discrete short monologues/dialogues with picture options
Five three-option multiple-choice questions
Time to check answers: 10 seconds
Listening to identify:
• 
specific information
Part 2
1
5
Note completion
A longer monologue with a note-completion task
Five three-option multiple-choice questions
Time to check answers: 15 seconds
Listening to identify:
• 
specific information
Part 3
1
5
Matching opinions with people who say them
A longer dialogue with a task focusing on identifying opinions
Five three-option multiple-choice questions 
Time to check answers: 15 seconds
Listening to identify:
• 
stated opinion
• 
implied meaning
Part 4
5
5
Multiple choice 
Five discrete short monologues/dialogues with text options
Five three-option multiple-choice questions
Time to check answers: 10 seconds
Listening to identify:
• 
attitude/feeling/
opinion
• 
gist
• 
function/reason/
purpose
• 
speaker relationship
• 
topic
• 
type/genre
Part 4
1
6
Follow-up questions
Answering six audio-only single sentence questions related to the 
Part 3 talk
Audience:
 
the audience is the interviewer/assessor
Preparation time:
none
Response time:
 
30 seconds per question
As in Part 3, plus:
• 
responding to 
questions
• 
expressing, justifying 
and responding to 
opinions
• 
expressing feelings

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Oxford Test of English Test Specifications