Today you are going to learn how to assess Listening skills, a receptive skill which contributes greatly to the improvement of our ability to speak.
Listening is a skill which is overrated however we don’t have to forget that our ability to speak is closely related to our ability to listen.
There are the different aspects that you should pay attention when assessing listening, These factors can be called types of listening performance.
These are the five of them:
- Intensive: Listening for perceptions, phonemes, intonations and discourse markers.
- Responsive: Listening to a short stretch of language so you can make an equally short response
- Selective: This type of listening performance requires that the learner listen for specific pieces of information.
- Extensive: Listening to lengthy lectures or conversation in order to get the general idea of something. Listening for gist, listening for the main idea and making inferences are part of effective listening.
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Assessment Tasks
There are the most common tasks to assess listening
Recognizing Phonological and Morphological Elements
| Test Takers hear | He is from California |
| Test Takers read | A) He is from California B) She is from California |
Paraphrase Recognition
| Test Takers hear | M name is Sue and I come from Japan |
| Test Takers read | A) She wants to go to Japan B) Sue is Japanese |
Responsive Listening
| Test Takers hear | How much time did it take? |
| Test Takers read | A) about $10 B) about an hour c) Yes, I did |
Listening Cloze
My name is Adam. I always _____________ up at 7 o’clock in the morning then I ___________ my face and brush my teeth. After that, I do some _____________ then I put my clothes on and prepare my school bag. Next, I have my breakfast and _________ for the school bus.
Information Transfer
Test Takers see
Test Takers hear
| A | Three men are having a beer |
| B | Three bearded men are having a beer |
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