問題詳情
The studies on speaking-task difficulty have yielded some useful advice for the planning of speaking tasks, andpossibly some guidelines for manipulating task difficulty. Researchers found that the number of objects or individuals tobe discussed affected task difficulty. It was easier to understand a story about an accident that involved two or three carsthan one involving four or five. However, what was also significant was the distinguish-ability of the objects orindividuals. If a story was about a boy and a girl, it was easier to tell than one about two girls, which again was easierthan a story about three girls. The number and complexity of events also affected difficulty, and in description taskssimplicity and symmetry of spatial structures was important. In sum, the more elements, factors or events there are in thetask material, the more complex the language that the speakers need to use, and therefore the more challenging the task.Thus, if there are several picture-based narrative tasks that are intended to be parallel, the test developers should checkthat each picture sequence involves a similar number of characters and events to make the tasks more comparable.
【題組】42 The author writes the passage to _____.
(A) explain how to control the difficulty of speaking tasks
(B) show how to design narration with pictures
(C) provide advice for reducing the complexity of story events
(D) describe what individuals can do in distinguishing characters of a story
參考答案
答案：A
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(0),D(1),E(0)