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Extensive Listening Assessment
This document discusses different methods for assessing listening comprehension skills, including extensive listening, dictation, and communicative tasks. It notes that the difficulty of extensive listening can be manipulated through factors like word length, pause length, and speed. Communicative tasks involve comprehension questions, conversations, and monologues. Authentic listening assessments mirror real-world interactions and are cognitively demanding. Alternatives to traditional comprehension tests that are more communicative include note-taking, editing, interpretive tasks, retelling, and interactive listening.
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- 2. DICTATION widely researched genreof assessing listening comprehension 50 – 100 words recited 3 times normal speed, long pauses between phrases, normal speed
- 3. DIFFICULTY CAN BEMANIPULATED BY: •The length of the word group •The length of pauses •The speed •Complexity of the discourse, grammar and vocabulary •Scoring (spelling, grammatical, additional words, replacement)
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- 6. ALTERNATIVES TO ASSESS COMPREHENSIONIN A TRULY COMMUNICATIVE CONTEXT NOTE TAKING • Listening to a lecturer and write down the important ideas. • Disadvantage: scoring is time consuming • Advantages: mirror real classroom situation it fulfills the criteria of cognitive demand, communicative language & authenticity
- 7. EditingEditing a writtenstimulus of an aural stimulus Test-takers read : the written stimulus material Test-takers hear: a spoken version of the stimulus Test-takers mark: the written stimulus by circling any words
- 8. Interpretive tasks:paraphrasing astory or conversation radio Song lyrics poetryTV Reports
- 9. EXAMPLE The stimuli canbe directed through questions like: “why was the singer feeling sad?”, “what do you think the political activists
- 10. RETELLING Listen to astory or news event and simply retell it either orally or written Difficulties: scoring and reliability validity, cognitive, communicative ability, authenticity are well incorporated into the task.
- 11. INTERACTIVE LISTENING face toface conversations)
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