試題詳解

38. If a test designer attempts to select a test technique that can identify whether the students can decode the th digraph and pronounce the phoneme [θ] correctly, which of the following techniques has     moderate practicality, good reliability, good validity, low authenticity, and positive washback?     
(A) A dictation to have students listen to the teacher pronounce “The thin guy is with three roses” and write out what they have heard onto the paper.
(B) A one-on-one interview to converse with the test taker addressing daily living topics while analyzing test taker’s pronunciation of [θ] sound.
(C) A listening discrimination exercise that asks students to select from a set of minimal pair options such as “sing” versus “thing”.
(D) An oral test that has students read-aloud a list of words in which words like “theme, moth, thus, mose, ect.” are presented.