This document provides guidance on testing listening skills for language teachers. It discusses specifying the tasks test takers should be able to complete, such as listening for specific information, obtaining the gist, or following instructions. It also covers selecting speech samples, writing test items using techniques like multiple choice, short answer, or information transfer. Scoring focuses on whether the correct response was understood, without penalizing grammar or spelling errors.

1. Testing For Language
Teachers
Nursanti Setiorini
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Universitas Indraprasta PGRI

2. Testing Listening
There are times when no speaker is called for such as when
listening to the radio, listening to lectures, or listening to
announcements.
Testing is considered
Testing of oral ability is considered
A testing of listening is included for its
backwash effect on the development of
oral skill

3. Specifying What Test Takers Should Be
Able to Do
Content
Operation : Macro
- Listening for specific information
- Obtaining gist of what is being said
- Following directions
- Following instructions

4.  Operation : Micro
- Interpretation of intonation
(recognition of sarcasm, etc.)
- Recognition of function of
structures
(such as interrogative as request)

5.  Types of text
- Monologue
- Dialogue
- Multi participants
- Announcement, instruction,
directions
 Addressees
General public, student, young
children, etc.

6.  Topics
These will often be indicated in quite
general terms.
Setting Criterial levels of performance
set at an appropriate level  as with reading
 a near perfect set of response  may be required for a
‘pass’

7. Setting The Task
Selecting Samples of Speech
Native or Non- Native Speaker
Writing Items
For extended listening, such as a lecturer :
- Listen to the passage and take the note
- Putting down what it is that candidates should
be able to get
- We can then attempt to write items that check
whether or not they have got what they should be
able to get

8.  Possible Techniques
1. Multiple Choice
the alternatives must be kept short and
simple.
2. Short Answer
short-answer items can work well in
listening test.

9. 3. Information Transfer
of
Involve such activities as the labelling
diagrams or picture, completing forms or
showing routes on map.
4. Note Taking
Where the ability to take notes while
listening to, say, a lecture is in question.

10. 5. Partial Dictation
It may be possible to administer a partial
dictation when no other test of listening is
practical.
Recording : or
6. Recordingto beLive Presentation :
Live Presentation
good acoustic
qualities and
with suitable
equipment
Speakers should have a
good command of
language of test and be
generally highly
reliable, responsible, and
trustworthy individuals

11. Scoring The Listening Test
In scoring a test of a receptive skill
there is no reason to deduct points for
errors of grammar or spelling, provided
that it is clear that the correct
response was intended