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TTI 403  
Development of English Oral Proficiency Test through SOPI
Jung Haeng
Honam University, Korea

This study aims to develop a performance-based English oral proficiency test for Korean University students. This test adopts an audiotape mediated testing technique called SOPI(Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview) developed by Stansfield (1996). First, some exit criteria of three different proficiency levels(beginning, intermediate, advanced) for Korean University students are explored. Second, 30 speaking tasks ranging from beginning to advanced levels are designed based on the exit criteria to elicit students' performance. They  progress from relatively simple asking or answering question tasks about autobiographical information, to a little complicated picture description or  narration tasks, and to very sophisticated role play tasks which require the abilities to support opinions, persuade others, discuss in hypothetical situations. Next, the 6-point rating scales are developed and applied to give  scores to the recorded answers of 60 Honam University students who took the SOPI test. Finally, the test results are analyzed on validity, reliability, and practicality.     



Jung Haeng was born and grew up in Kwangju, Korea.  She majored in English Education in Chonnam University and got an M.A and a Ph.D degree in English Linguistics in Chonnam University.  She also got an M.A degree in TESOL in Southeast Missouri State University, America in 1994.  She worked as a program coordinator in the Language Education Center of Chonnam University from 1994 to 1997, and is now working as a full-time instructor at Dept. of English of Honam University.