3.2. Method
In order to answer research question No . I, the 592 students completed a self-report inventory of the items on the new CDS immediately after they had taken the TOEIC test . On a Likert scale of 1 to 5 the students indicated to what degree they had the English performance skills described by the CDS .
3.3. Results and discussion
Person’s correlation analysis showed that there was a strong positive correlation between the CDS and students TOEIC score Student who had scores of approximately 600 reported that they had the performance skills in English described by the study’s CDS student who had lower scores reported that they were lacking in the CDS performance skills . Thus,the answer to research question I was that the new set of CDS corresponded to the beliefs students at the TOEIC 600-level had about their own English-language performance skills . It was concluded that because of the correspondence between the 600-score level students’ beliefs about their performance skills, the lack of these skills as perceived by lower level student, and the EFL teachers views of a potential constructive relationship between the new CDS and learning materials, the new CDS set would be useful in the development of TOEIC learning materials for students who had lower score but hoped to reach the 600-score level . Table I shows the correlation among the CDS and student’ TOEIC scores .
4. Investigation into research question No.2
Measure Mean
( SD ) TOEIC
Listening score TOEIC
reading score Can-do
Listening score Can-do
reading score
TOEIC
Listening score 343.2
( 71.95 ) 1.00 69* 45* 38*
TOEIC
reading score 267.00
( 68.54 ) 69* 1.00 30* 39*
Can-do
Listening score 47.84
( 7.61 ) 45* 30* 1.00 73*
Can-do
reading score 60.97
( 9.36 ) 38* 39* 33* 1.00
4.1. Participants
22 EFL students at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan who had TOEIC scores of below 600 participated in this study .
4.2. Method
In order to answer research question 2, TOEIC testing was conducted at the beginning of April before the semester started to select 22 students who had TOEIC scores below .