... of this is the end -term English listening test, a kind of achievement test that first year students are required to sit for at the end of a semester. As the test accounts for 50% of the total ... assumption influences the tasks chosen to test language in communicative situations. A communicative test of listening, for testple, would not test whether the testee could understand what the utterance, ... of preparing for the test (2) the feedback they receive about their performance on the test; and (3) the decisions that may be made about them on the basis of their test scores. For Alderson...