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Things that we can observe during listening as the receptive skills are process and product (invisible, audible)
Types of Listening
Intensive: phonemes, words, intonation Responsive: a greeting, command, question Selective: TV , radio news items, stories Extensive: listening for the gist, the main idea, making inference
3. Reduced Forms Understanding the reduced forms that may not have been a part of English learners past experiences in classes where only formal textbook language has been presented 4. Performance variables Hesitations, False starts, Corrections, Diversion
6. Rate of Delivery Keeping up with the speed of delivery, processing automatically as the speaker continues
7. Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation: Correctly understanding prosodic elements of spoken language, which is almost always much more difficult than understanding the smaller phonological bits and pieces.
Designing Assessment Tasks : Intensive Listening 1. Recognizing Phonological & Morphological Elements a. Phonemics pair, consonants
Test-takers read : a. Hes from California b. Shes from California
e. One-word stimulus
Test-takers read : a. vine b. wine
Test-takers read : a. Keiko is comfortable in Japan b. Keiko wants to come to Japan c. Keiko is Japanese d. Keiko likes Japan
b. Dialogue paraphrase
Test-takers read : a. Tracy lives in the United States b. Tracy is American c. Tracy comes from Canada d. Maria is Canadian
Test-takers write the missing words or phrases in the blanks Flight gate
Flight
Information Transfer
Information transfer: multiple-picture-cuedselection Information transfer: single-picture-cuedverbal-multiple-choice
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Sentence Repetition
The task of simply repeating a sentence or a partial sentence, or sentence repetition, is also used as an assessment of listening comprehension
Dictation is a practical valid method for integrating listening and writing skills, but the authenticity is questioned.
2. Communicative stimulus-response tasks Listen to a monologue or conversation and respond to a set of comprehension questions. Disadvantages: some of the multiple-choice questions dont mirror communicative reallife situations. The conversation is authentic, but listening to a conversation between a doctor and a patient is rarely done (p.133)
Interpretive tasks: paraphrasing a story or conversation Potential stimuli include: song lyrics, poetry, radio, TV, news reports, etc.
The stimuli can be directed through questions like: why was the singer feeling sad?, what do you think the political activists might do next? Difficulties: The task conforms to certain time limitation, and the questions might be quite specific, there may be more than one correct interpretation (scoring)
Retelling Listen to a story or news event and simply retell it either orally or written show full comprehension
Difficulties: scoring and reliability validity, cognitive, communicative ability, authenticity are well incorporated into the task. Interactive listening (face to face conversations)