Redesigning the 21st century Listening Test to Stimulate Students‘ Critical Thinking: A Case Study

Abstract

The study aimed at redesigning the 21st century listening test to stimulate students’ critical thinking. It was a case study done throughout several phases with the object was the final test of listening 2 course in Universitas PGRI Semarang, Indonesia. Documents review were done to collect the data, then descriptively reviewed and analyzed. The theories of cognitive domain, listening test type, and listening processing were used as the indicators. 4 parts of questions were composed; part A (analyzing, intensive, bottom up); part B (analyzing, selective, bottom up); part C (evaluating, responsive, top down); part D (creating, extensive, top down). These findings may become a model of listening test to prepare students’ readiness to face the 21st century workforce, then, listening will be seen as a challenging and interesting subject, not as a subject that can be neglected and underrated.