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Lectures 4 - 6
ASSESSING LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Receptive Skills• Productive Skills• Criteria for selecting language sub skills• Different Test Types & Test Requirements• Common Test Format
LANGUAGE SKILLS
RECEPTIVE SKILLS
• Listening
• Reading
PRODUCTIVE SKILLS
• Speaking
• Writing
TESTING OF LISTENING
Why Test Listening?
• assess how well a student has mastered what has been taught
• listening skill is one of the language skills to be developed – receptive skill
• to be proficient in the language means to be able to listen effectively
TYPES OF LISTENING TESTS
Auditory Discrimination
• tests the ability of the learners to discover the similarities
and differences
between words
Auditory Comprehension
• tests the ability of learners to analyze
and to comprehend
Types of tasks in ESL listening tests
• listening and answering multiple choice questions
• listening and completing a summary
• listening and completing sentences• listening to complete a
table/form/diagram/flow chart
• listening to answer true / false questions /yes or no questions
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The types of listening skills you need to learn for English tests include:
• listening to identify the gist of a conversation or monologue extracting specific factual information
• listening to identify speaker roles
• listening to identify relationships between ideas or pieces of information, such as:
- cause and effect
- order of events
- comparison
• following directions and instructions • listening for numbers, dates, time, etc.• making inferences • determining when a speaker is expressing
fact, assumption or opinion. • listening for main points, detail, function,
location, roles and relationships, mood, attitude, intention, feeling or opinion
The types of listening skills you need to learn for English tests include:
Limited Response
Advantages• Suitable for persons
unable to read & write in the target language
• Involves flexible techniques
• Questions are generally easy to prepare
• Rather objective & quick
• Easy to score
Limitations• Limited to classes with
bilingual teachers & students of the same language background
• Neither needed nor preferred by intermediate to advanced students
• Suitable pictures are not always easy to find
Multiple-Choice Appropriate Response
Advantages• Fast & easy to
correct
• Can be scored consistently & reliably
• An integrative, communicative measure of listening
Limitations• More difficult to
prepare• Cheating is fairly
easy unless alternative forms are used
• SS need to be literate to read options
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 1
• Listen to a short talk & identify words mentioned (from 2 options given)
• Discrete test – sound discrimination
• Beginner’s level• Word set in isolation• does not test
understanding of spoken messages
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 2
DICTATION
• Can measure general proficiency, including integrative skills used in writing
• Easy to prepare
• Can be scored with good consistency
• Much harder to cheat (MCQ, completion, cloze)
• Difficult to use for diagnostic purposes – combine L’g & W’g
• Not usually helpful in measuring short term progress
• Not as easy to correct (MCQ, completion, cloze)
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 3
Follow directions on a map – put a
cross on Mandy’s house & write name of each building
• Listen and identify- match word to building – follow instructions
• Low level/beginner
• Integration of listening, reading & writing skills
• Need to understand words pertaining to directions (some language)
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 4
Radio Reports
• Intermediate /advanced level
• Intensive listening-listen for main idea
• requires knowledge of language
• Integrative skills-L,R&W
• Text selection important.
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 5
Talks &
Lectures
• Intermediate / advanced
• Integrative – L,R,W
• (W)Note-taking skills
• (R) Inferencing skills
• Listening for comprehension
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 6
Listen to a passage and answer the questions that follow- MC
• Common test to measure listening skill
• Integrative
• Intermediate /advanced
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 7A
Listen and
underline
word included in
sentence.
• Discrete item
• Sound identification/
discrimination
• Words in context
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 7B
Listen to a sentence and circle the appropriate
meaning of a word
• Intermediate /advanced
• Integration of 4 language skills
• Requires reading & inferencing skills
Samples of listening tests
SAMPLE 7C
Listen to the sentence read & underline the syllable that is stressed
• Discrete item – sound discrimination
• Test pronunciation
• Does not test comprehension