Assesing Listening
Observable performance
be able to see or hear the student's performance.
The importance of listening
The aural-oral mode accounts for a large proportion of successful language acquisition.
BASIC TYPES OF LISTENING
Objetives
Objectives may be classified in terms of several types of listening performance
Four types of listening performance
Understanding the elements of face structure, such as phonemes, words
Understanding the pragmatic context
Determination of the meaning of auditory information.
Development of the essence, a global or comprehensive understanding
DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: INTENSIVE LISTENING
Recognizing Phonological and Morphological Elements
Offers an oral stimulus and asks examinees to identify the stimulus from among two or more choices
Paraphrase Recognition
Words, phrases and sentences, which are usually evaluated by providing a stimulus sentence
limited auditory information and specific information
DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: RESPONSIVE LISTENING
Listening cloze
equire you to listen to a story, a monologue or a conversation and simultaneously read the written text in which selected words or phrases have been suppressed
DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: SELECTIVE LISTENING
Information transfer
Information processed aurally must be transferred into a visual representation
Sentence repetition
The task of simply repeating a phrase
DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS:EXTENSIVE LISTENING
Dictation
Communicative stimulus-response tasks
A monologue or conversation is presented as a stimulus and answers a series of in-depth questions.
Authentic listening tasks
Every task shares some characteristics with the target language tasks and no test is completely authentic
- Take notes
- Editing
- Interpretative tasks
- Retelling
Perla Denisse Pérez Villegas