新英语专业八级考试听力理解文本的语料库分析

A Corpus Analysis of the Texts of Listening Comprehension in New TEM-8

基于自建语料库从文本话题、词汇难度、听力语速、会话问题类型四个方面,对2015年改革之后的新英语专业八级考试听力理解的文本进行验证分析。研究结果表明文本话题未超出《调整说明》所规定的范围,文本材料平均难度处于标准和较难的等级内,语速比较理想,会话题型多样,考查相对全面。然而也存在讲座话题较为单一、文本篇幅和难度不平衡等不足。基于此,专八听力理解试题命制需要适当丰富讲座部分话题内容,适当控制文本篇幅和难度,运用语料库辅助命题等建议。

Based on the self-built corpus,the paper analyzes the texts of the listening comprehension of new TEM 8 since 2015’s reform from the perspectives of topic,vocabulary difficulty,listening speed,types of conversational questions.The research shows that the text material basically meets the requirements of the The Statement of Adjustment on TEM-8 Question Types.However,there are some problems that need to be improved.For example,some topics of lectures are lack of diversity,and some of them are long and difficult.Based on the above analysis,this paper attempts to provide some suggestions for the design of listening comprehension tests.