diff --git a/scrapy/newitem/fields.py b/scrapy/newitem/fields.py
index 6e123e2c8..a5e34a31b 100644
--- a/scrapy/newitem/fields.py
+++ b/scrapy/newitem/fields.py
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ class BaseField(object):
 
 
 class ListField(BaseField):
-    def __init__(self, field_type, default=None):
-        self._field = field_type()
+    def __init__(self, field, default=None):
+        self.field = field
         super(ListField, self).__init__(default)
 
     def to_python(self, value):
         if hasattr(value, '__iter__'):
-            return [self._field.to_python(v) for v in value]
+            return [self.field.to_python(v) for v in value]
         else:
             raise TypeError("Cannot instatiante %s with %s" \
                              % (self.__class__.__name__, type(value).__name__))
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_itemadaptor.py b/scrapy/tests/test_itemadaptor.py
index ee829625a..c64e3f2d9 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_itemadaptor.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_itemadaptor.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class InheritDefaultAdaptor(DefaultedAdaptor):
 
 
 class ListFieldTestItem(Item):
-    names = fields.ListField(fields.TextField)
+    names = fields.ListField(fields.TextField())
 
 
 class ListFieldItemAdaptor(ItemAdaptor):
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_newitem.py b/scrapy/tests/test_newitem.py
index b75389ed8..fb6fc5926 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_newitem.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_newitem.py
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ class NewItemTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, TestItem, name=set())
 
-    def test_multi(self):
+    def test_list(self):
         class TestListItem(Item):
             name = fields.TextField()
-            names = fields.ListField(fields.TextField)
+            names = fields.ListField(fields.TextField())
 
         i = TestListItem()
         i['name'] = u'name'
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class NewItemFieldsTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(field.from_unicode_list([]), u'')
         self.assertEqual(field.from_unicode_list([u'hello', u'world']), u'hello world')
 
-        field = fields.ListField(fields.TextField)
+        field = fields.ListField(fields.TextField())
         self.assertEqual(field.from_unicode_list([]), [])
         self.assertEqual(field.from_unicode_list([u'hello', u'world']), [u'hello', u'world'])