Listening

Listening TestsChapter Seven

Students: Vivian Burgos Jocelyn Moreno

Paulina RiquelmeClass: TP V

Listening

To evaluate something else

Respond to simple commands

Sub skills focus on the linguistic

components of language

Focus on bits and pieces of language

To evaluate more integrative skills

Recognition of words and structure and

pronunciation features

Comprehension is concerned with

broader communication

Focus on exchange of facts and ideas

and interpreting the speaker’s intention,

mainly

Limited response• Native-language Response

English or

what?

1.-

2.- Listen to something in English

Read T/F in Native Language

E.X

Los Caballos pueden volar

T / F

3.- Listen to something in English, Ex. How far is it to New York?a) No muy lejos b) Al sur de Boston c) Como a 200 millas

• Picture Cues

a) The cat is sleeping

b) The cat is running

1.-

2.-

• The king has a crown T / F

• The baby is blond Yes / No

• Where is the queen in the picture?

• Task Response

Give commands

Arranging objects

Draw with colors

Give directions on a map

• Alternative forms of limited response

Choosing the best statement

• Look at one picture.

• Hear three statements.

• Choose the one that best matches it.

Choosing the best figure

• Simple charts or geometric figures.

• The cat has three eyes

• The cat has two ears

• The cat is bald

Circle the picture with one cat

Advantages

-Not able to write or read

-Flexible techniques

-Easy to prepare

-Easy and quick to score

-Rather objective

Disadvantages

-Native-language responses are limited

-Native-language responses are neither needed nor preferred

-Suitable pictures hard to find

-Equipment is usually used

Focus on meaning

• Use vocabulary and grammar that the students already know.

• The object is to measure the student’s understanding of a particular sentence or short dialogue.

Keep the option simple

• The options are simple and brief, the students have to keep the stem in their memory

• We can use three options, and keep these brief so the students won’t become confused.

Learn to adjust the difficulty of the items

• We can take the items easier or more difficult.

• There are interesting ways to make an item more difficult.

Multiple-choice Appropriate Response

Alternate Forms of multiple-choice appropriate response

There are three aditional ways to use multiple choice.

Added coment

Paraphrase

Question on a dialogue

Any test should provide an example to

avoid confusion

Fast and easy to correct.

It it an integrative, communicative measure of listening.

Can be scored consistently and reliably.

Advantages

It is more difficult to prepare.

Since the reading

multiple-choice

options is required,

students need to be

literate in English.

Cheating is fairly

Easy.

Limitations

To understand social interests

Two types of listening tests

Developed in College Students (Upper – intermediate to advanced)

It has not to be taken from a reading.Teachers have to use original tapes of actual lectures.

Three or four lecturettes of 3 to 5 minutes

Lecturette

To keep in Mind:- Students should take notes while listening.- Lectures should not be in favour of one Group of students.-Questions should not permit to get answersRight simpl by calling upon logic or generalKnowledge.

Texts- Radio- TV Commercials- Excerpts from

radio dramas- Extended social

conversations- Telephone calls- Routine Business

transactions.

To keep in mind:

-Students do not have to take notes.-Questions should avoid asking about small details.-Questions are kept short, with fairly simple vocabulary.-Passages should be spoken at Normal speed.-Tow or more speakers must be usedFor conversation passages.- Multiple choice tasks and completion- Are useful tasks to develop in these tests.

ALTERNATE FORMS OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS

1.Examiner voice. Following a dialog, we can introduce a third voice.2.Sentece completion. A printed sentence-completion item is also Acceptable.

ADVANTAGES OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS

1. Closely approximate real-life communication.2. Fast and easy to correct.3. Scored consistently and reliably.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS

1. Students have to be able to read in English.2. Difficulty to find natural-sounding listening passages.3. Possibility for students to cheat on these tests.

• Limited response

• Multiple-choice appropriate response

• Extended comunication

Activities