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The document discusses listening skills and how to assess them in students. It describes two types of listening tests: auditory discrimination, which tests phoneme discrimination, stress, and intonation; and auditory comprehension, which tests comprehending, analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing messages from texts. It provides steps for developing and administering listening tests, including using authentic texts, providing context, and avoiding questions requiring many details. It also gives examples of different types of listening assessment, such as dictation, selecting sentences, and oral cloze tests.

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Testing Listening Draft

The document discusses listening skills and how to assess them in students. It describes two types of listening tests: auditory discrimination, which tests phoneme discrimination, stress, and intonation; and auditory comprehension, which tests comprehending, analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing messages from texts. It provides steps for developing and administering listening tests, including using authentic texts, providing context, and avoiding questions requiring many details. It also gives examples of different types of listening assessment, such as dictation, selecting sentences, and oral cloze tests.

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Testing Listening

People listen for various purposes. Some of these are tocritique, to analyze, to get information, to
evaluate and to appreciate.

Types of listenin

Analytical

Critical

Appreciative

Macro and micro skills involved

How can you be sure your students have acquired these listening skills

How do you know that they comprehend the text heard

Assessment listening skills of students

How listening tests are developed and administered

Two types of listening test

Auditory discrimination focuses on phoneme discrimination and sensitivity to stress and intonation

Auditory comprehension tests the ability to comprehend anayze interpret and synthesize the messages
conveyed in text such as news reports, lectures, advertisements and the like.

We follow five basic steps

Planning the test

Constructing the test items

Administering the test

Scoring the test

Interpreting the test results

Factors

Text

Task

Channel

Response mode

Item type
Stimulus always oral if stimulus is presented in other ways it is no longer a listening test

Response oral written or non verbal

Developing and administering listening tests

Authentic texts should be made use of

Test takers should be given information about what to listen to

Text should be presented at a normal pace with natural intonation and stress patterns

Questions which require many details should be avoided

ADT is Easy to prepare and administer

Only involves similarities or differences in words phrases and sentences

Differences in sounds that make up the words stress speech juncture or intonation

In developing auditory discrimination test

You must be aware of the words that your learners are having difficulty in

Like sounds of

Th

First test

Like spelling

Associate letter names and symbols

Students should be able to

Write the word correctly not because he knows how to spell the word out but because he can associate
the letter namr and the grapheme

Able to discriminate between similar sounds like i and e g and j m and n

Test 2

Teacher says sentences

Testees write the sentence

Listen- repeat – write


Students must be aware of blending suchas didju did you and the other doather

Be sure to use simple words they may be difficult to spell

Sentences should not be too long

Grammar based listening test

Use an answer sheet

Say a sentence and say three sentence

Select among the three which is the meaning of the first sentence

You’re going to be very disappointed with me

Oral cloze

Select an unfamiliar song

Delete some words or phrases

Give copies of the mutilated text to the class

Sing the song or play the recording

Have the students restore the missing words or phrases

Auditory acuity

Listen repeat write test

Listening is one of the four macro skills


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Auditory discrimination this refers to a child's ability tell the difference between sounds, words, leads
what we often call auditory.

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I. Macro Skills Background

Learning a language requires four skills to have a complete communication. These skills are
listening, reading, speaking, and writing. We learn to listen first, then to speak, then to read and finally
to write (English Club). Furthermore, these skills are interrelated to each other in many ways – by
consuming (listening and reading) and by producing (speaking and writing), by direction of
communication (listening and speaking), and by method of communication (reading and writing) (Lewis).

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