“…Among them, the test items attracted many researchers' interest as they were the core of the test. The overall test items were studied by S. Lee (1998) Cha (1994Cha ( , 1995Cha ( , 1997aCha ( , 1997b Lee and Park (2012). Although the speaking skill was indirectly assessed through items that require the candidates to select appropriate responses to the heard statements or dialogues, Shin and Ahn (2003) investigated the speaking items of the CSAT from the perspective of pragmatics.…”