This study aims at developing and proposing a Korean speaking proficiency test tool. It is speaking that is one of the most important language skills in communication, and communicative speaking proficiency means how accurately, fluently a speaker use...
This study aims at developing and proposing a Korean speaking proficiency test tool. It is speaking that is one of the most important language skills in communication, and communicative speaking proficiency means how accurately, fluently a speaker use a language and how properly and consistently he or she reacts in communication and the relationship among the participants.
The number of Korean learners has been growing continuously and so has the number of applicants for Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK), however, TOPIK doesn't include speaking. It deprives Korean learners of a chance to get a objective test on what they have learned and teachers of a chance not only to check what the learners are lack of but also to fill the lack. In addition, Korean educational institutes don't get any help to set a curriculum and a syllabus accordingly. There must be an appropriate speaking proficiency test developed for a balanced language education with other language skills.
Chapter 1 presents the purpose and needs of this study based on statistics and the causes of Korean speaking test absence. The scope of this study is determined within the topic of web-based Korean speaking proficiency test, and this study reviews previous studies in four different categories of general speaking tests, Korean speaking tests, Korean speaking test models, and Korean speaking test items. It also reviews the limitations of each study.
Chapter 2 reviews the existing definitions of communicative skills and speaking proficiency for a theoretical background to designing a Korean speaking proficiency test.
Chapter 3 examines if those definitions of speaking proficiency are reflected on existing English speaking tests and a Korean speaking test. It also reviews the limitations of each test.
Chapter 4 determines constructs of speaking test based on the definitions in chapter 3. And then proposes Test of Korean Speaking(TOKS) as a new Korean speaking proficiency test model to overcome the limitations of existing speaking tests.
Chapter 5 defines the significance of this study as this study presents a test tool that contains essential constructs which has been considered vital in existing theories on communicative skills and speaking proficiency. Moreover, this speaking test model has its facility, economic efficiency, and practicality. However, there are limitations of this Korean speaking proficiency test model that it hasn't gone through any verification and the programs utilized for the test model may change in accordance with the development of technology.
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