Assesing Listening
The process of the listening performance itself is the invisible, inaudible process of internalizing meaning from the auditory signals being transmitted to the ear and brain
The importance of listening
Sometimes the performance does not indicate true competence
student-related reliability factors could affect performance, thereby providing an unreliable measure of actual competence.
Multiple measures will always give you a more reliable and valid assessment than a single measure
The teacher cannot observe the process and the product of the listening skills.
Listening has often played second fiddle to its counterpart, speaking.
Listening
Basic types of listening
Designing appropriate assessment tasks in listening begins with the specification of objectives, or criteria.
Those objectives may be classified in terms of several types of listening performance.
From these stages we can derive four commonly identified types of listening performance, each of which comprises a category within which to consider assessment tasks and procedures.
Intensive
Responsive
Selective
Extensive
Perception of the components or a larger stretch of a language.
Short stretch of language to make a short response.
Stretches of discurse for several minutes to "scan" for certain information.
Listening for the gist, for the main idea, and making interferences.