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Extensive Listening

There are 3 main types of extensive listening comprehension tasks described in the document: 1) Dictation tasks involve listening to a passage multiple times and transcribing it, which can assess listening and writing skills but lacks authenticity. Scoring criteria needs to be established. 2) Communicative stimulus-response tasks present an audio stimulus like a conversation and ask comprehension questions, but the questions don't mirror real-life interactions. 3) Authentic listening tasks ideally mirror real-world contexts, but tests as a performance sample have limited capacity to do so. Example tasks described are note-taking, editing, interpretative tasks, and retelling, which aim to be cognitively demanding, communicative, and

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Extensive Listening

There are 3 main types of extensive listening comprehension tasks described in the document: 1) Dictation tasks involve listening to a passage multiple times and transcribing it, which can assess listening and writing skills but lacks authenticity. Scoring criteria needs to be established. 2) Communicative stimulus-response tasks present an audio stimulus like a conversation and ask comprehension questions, but the questions don't mirror real-life interactions. 3) Authentic listening tasks ideally mirror real-world contexts, but tests as a performance sample have limited capacity to do so. Example tasks described are note-taking, editing, interpretative tasks, and retelling, which aim to be cognitively demanding, communicative, and

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Extensive Listening

There are 3 extensive listening comprehension tasks

● Dictation
- Dictation is a widely researched genre of assessing listening comprehension. In a
dictation, test-takers hear a passage, typically of 50 to 100 words and recited 3
times: normal speed, long pauses between phrases or natural word of group,
normal speed
- The difficulty of a dictation task can be easily manipulated by the length of the
word groups, the length of the pauses, the speed at which text is read, and the
complexity of the discourse, grammar, and vocabulary
+ Besides there is another matter which is called scoring. So you will need to
decide on scoring criteria for several possibility kinds of errors:
► Spelling
► Grammatical
► Skipped word or phrase
► Permutation of words
► additional words not in the original
► replacement of a word with an appropriate synonym
- Dictation is a reasonably valid method for integrating listening and writing skills
and for tapping into the cohesive elements of language implied to short passages
but the authenticity is questioned
- Despite these disadvantages, the practicality of the administration of dictations
moderate degree of reliability in a well-established scoring system and a strong
spondence to other language abilities speaks well
● Communicative Stimulus-Response Tasks
- This is popular genre of assessment task in which the test-taker is presented with
a stimulus monologue mos or conversation and then is asked to respond to a set of
comprehension questions
- Disadvantage: the subsequent multiple choice questions don’t mirror
communicative, real-life situation
- The conversation is authentic but listening to a conversation between a doctor and
a patient is rarely done.
● Authentic Listening Tasks
- Ideally, the language assessment field would have a stockpile of listening test
type that are cognitive demanding, communicative, and authentic. However, test as
a sample of performance and a set of task with limited frames implies an equally
limited capacity to mirror all the real-world contexts of listening performance
► Note-taking
+ The process of scoring wastes time
+Because of subjectivity of the point system, it lacks some reliability
+ The notes become an indirect but arguably valid form of assessing global
listening comprehension
+ The tasks fulfills the criteria cognitive demand, communicative language and
authenticity
► Editing
+ It provides both a written and a spoken stimulus, and requires test-taker to listen
for discrepancies
+ Scoring achieves relatively high reliability as there are usually a small number of
specific differences that must be identified
► Interpretative tasks
+ It extends the stimulus material to a longer stretch of discourse and forces the
test-taker to infer a response
+ Potential stimuli include (song lyrics, poetry, radio/television news reports and
an oral account of an experience)
+ Test-takers are then directed to interpret the stimulus by answering a few
questions (in open-ended form). Questions might be: …..
+ Difficulties: the task conforms to certain time limitation, and the questions can
be quite specific, even though they ask test-taker to use inference. Otherwise, there
may be more than one correct interpretation
► Retelling
+ In a related task, test-takers listen to a story or news event and simply retell it, or
summarize it, either orally (on an audiotape) or in writing. Test-taker must identify
the gist, main idea, purpose, supporting point and/or conclusion to show full
comprehension
+ Difficulties: scoring and reliability, validity, cognitive processing,
communicative ability and authenticity are well incorporated into the task
+ A fifth category of listening comprehension was hinted at earlier: interactive
listening (face to face conversation)

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