Assessing Listening By: Siti Nur Jannah
Basic types of listening Intensive: listening for perception of components of a larger stretch of language Responsive: listening to relatively short stretch of language in order to make an equally short response. Selective: Processing stretches of discourse such as short monologues for several minutes in order to "scan" for certain information. Extensive: listening to develop a top-down, global understanding of spoken language.
Designing assessment task: intensive listening Recognizing phonological and morphological elements: A classic test task gives a spoken stimulus and asks test-takers to identify the stimulus from two or more choices.
Paraphrase recognition: the scale of listening comprehension microskills is words, phrases, and sentences and asking the test-taker to choose the correct paraphrase from a number of choices.
Designing assessment task: responsive listening
Designing assessment task: selective listening Listening cloze: tasks require the test-taker to listen to a story, monologue, or conversation and selected words and phrases have been deleted.
Information transfer: aurally processed information must be transferred to a visual representation, such as labeling a diagram, identifying an element in a picture, completing a form, or showing routes on a map.
Sentence repetition: The task of simply repeating a sentence or a partial sentence
Designing assessment task: extensive listening Dictation: is a widely researched genre of assessing listening comprehension. In a dictation, test-takers hear a passage, typically of 50 to 100 words.
Communicative stimulus-response tasks: the test-taker is presented with a stimulus monologue or conversation and then is asked to respond to a set of comprehensions.
Authentic listening tasks Note-taking: Editing Interpretive tasks Retelling