Test Specification for Speaking Comprehension Test

No Test Specification
1 Objective of the course At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to improve their speaking skill through
present tense and past tense.
2 Purpose of the test The aim of this speaking test is to assess and diagnose students’ strength and weaknesses of
speaking ability in college level.
3 Specific instructional The test is intended to measure students’ speaking skill in terms of present and past tense,
Objective especially in identifying:
• second conditional
• prepositions of place
• grammatical features
• vocabulary in context
4 Test level Intermediate level
5 Definition of construct The students use their language ability a correct syntax in an organized way, cohesively and with
an appropriate register in order to accomplish the test purpose.
6 Focus language Simple present tense and simple past tense.
7 Kind of test Interview, case study, and picture-cued.
8 Number of test 10
9 Source of texts Language Assessment principle and classroom practice (Brown, 2004), Versant Test.
10 Time allotment 10 minutes/students
11 Equipment Recorder/phone, paper, pen
12 Scoring Scoring scale: 1-5 (1 for the lowest score and 5 for the highest score) in every element.
13 Language element to be Vocabulary, Pronunciation, pronunciation and accent, Grammar and content.
tested
 Blueprint for the Speaking Test

Language skill: Speaking

Goal: to improve the students’ speaking skills in English related to general information. These are aimed to enable the students to have
a more thorough and comprehensive knowledge about general information that can be found in everyday oral communication of
English to support their study.

Content Cognitive Domain Total Percentage

Test Indicators Knowled Comprehensi Applicati Analysis Synthesis evaluation
objective ge on on
Measure the Given certain topics, Section 1
students’ about hometown, (1-4)
speaking activity in weekend,
comprehensi social media, and
on family member,
students are able to
describe the certain
topics given.

Given particular Section 2

situations, about (5-6)
what students expect
when they have
money and get
scholarship, students
are able to explain
and link it to their
life.
Given a picture- Section 3
cued, consist of 2 (7-10)
parts; students are
able to analyzing
and explaining the
picture with their
own understanding.