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It is often the case that various kinds of language listening tests are held in high school classrooms. They are TOEIC, TOEFL, and more sensitively, the nation wide university entrance examination. In reading and writing, students should be required to show their own ability in the same condition. But listening test is different. The test is influenced by the condition of listening environments. Currently, high school classrooms have a variety of listening environments. Size of classrooms, location and performance of loudspeakers, doors and windows location which may affect the background noise level, reverberation are the part of the factors which affect the listening environment. The differences in these factors may cause variety of the score, other than the actual listening ability of students. It is obvious that different listening environment may affect the students test scores. Students may get better scores in good environment, while worse in poor listening environments. The purpose of this study is to verify the listening condition of classrooms in high schools. Interviews and questionnaires on the actual response of students who took various kinds of tests in a variety of classrooms were collected. To match the listening condition to the score, a serious of listening tests and measurements on the acoustic condition were performed. The result shows that the score is strongly correlated to the listening environment of classrooms. This means that there must be a standard for the environment of listening tests, for the students to show their actual listening ability. |