Assesing Listening

Observable performance

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be able to see or hear the student's performance.

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The importance of listening

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The aural-oral mode accounts for a large proportion of successful language acquisition.

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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

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DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: INTENSIVE LISTENING

Recognizing Phonological and Morphological Elements

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Offers an oral stimulus and asks examinees to identify the stimulus from among two or more choices

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Paraphrase Recognition

Words, phrases and sentences, which are usually evaluated by providing a stimulus sentence

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limited auditory information and specific information

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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

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DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: SELECTIVE LISTENING

Information transfer

Information processed aurally must be transferred into a visual representation

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Sentence repetition

The task of simply repeating a phrase

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DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS:EXTENSIVE LISTENING

Dictation

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Communicative stimulus-response tasks

A monologue or conversation is presented as a stimulus and answers a series of in-depth questions.

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Authentic listening tasks

Every task shares some characteristics with the target language tasks and no test is completely authentic

  1. Take notes

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  1. Editing

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  1. Interpretative tasks

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  1. Retelling

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Perla Denisse Pérez Villegas