대학생의 개인적 특성이 영어 말하기 시험의 타당성에 미치는 영향

This study examined the effect of individual characteristics (introversion, confidence in English, English ability, gender) of students on validity of English speaking tests through the comparison of perceptions and performance of different groups of students in an Interview Oral Test (IOT), a Pair Oral Test (POT), and a Group Oral Test (GOT). Twenty-eight participants took the three tests and responded to the questionnaire assessing their perceptions of and reactions to the tests. Main findings of the study were as follows. First, introversion, English ability, gender did not influence the perceptions of validity, reliability, practicality, backwash effects of each test. However, the students who had confidence in English tended to have more positive attitudes to validity and practicality of IOT. In test preference, less introverted, more confident, or male students were more favorable to IOT and more introverted, less confident, or female students were more positive to POT. Lastly, introversion, gender, and confidence in English were not related to speaking performances on IOT, POT, GOT, but English ability had significant relationship with those of all of the tests.