Chet tillarini o'qitishning integrallashgan kursi (III & IV) Qarshi- 2018 Module: Language Testing and Assessment Lesson Basic principles of language assessment

Lesson 10. How to test/assess listening
Intensive – Intensive listening activities focus specifically on the components of language such as phonemes, words, intonation, discourse markers, and others.
Responsive – This is a shorter amount of language that is spoke for the students to listen to, which is usually brief such as greetings, commands, quick comprehension checks, questions, and others, that elicit a brief response.
Selective – Selective listening is a longer activity with language that would span several minutes and may be a short dialogue or passage. The students are then asked to listed or "scan" for specific details. These assessments are used to check the student's comprehension of meaning rather than the various aspects of language. Students may be asked to recall character names, numbers, a specific category of grammar (nouns, verbs, articles, etc.) of they may need to provide a summary response of directions, procedures, or overall facts/events.
Extensive – The mostly lengthy in application, extensive listening is generally similar to a lecture, an entire conversation, or a longer reading. The student is then asked for the main ideas and summarization or to make predictions after listening.
When teaching listening, the teacher checks to what extent he/she helps the students do the following:
• know their reason for listening.
• activate what they know about the topic
• use their background knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning
• recall important words and structures
• guess unknown words and expressions
• organize what they hear.
• discriminate between sounds
• use expressions in real life situations
• use intonation and stress when saying grammatical structures
• tell the main idea of the listening text
• use content words in sentences of their own
• understand and use reduced forms

Teaching Listening Assessment Checklist:

After the listening lesson students could be able to:
* know their reason for listening.
* activate what they know about the topic.
* use their background knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning.
* recall important words and structures.
* guess unknown words and expressions.
* organize what they hear.
* discriminate between sounds.
* use expressions in real life situations.
* use intonation and stress when saying grammatical structures.
* tell the main idea of the listening text.
* use content words in sentences of their own.
* understand and use reduced forms.

What aspects of listening does the theacher assess?

1. Listening comprehension of meaning in texts (surface meaning explicitly stated in texts)
2. Decoding of words/intonation patterns/ etc.
3. Comprehension of structural organisation of texts (e.g. connecting words, etc.)
4. Listening as scanning
5. Listening as skimming
6. Listening for main idea
7. Listening for details.
8. Listening extensively
9. Interpreting message
10. Inferencing meaning
11. Listening to a variety of input (formal, informal, transactional, interactional, variety of accents, speech rates, etc.)
12. Listening strategies
13. Attitudes to listening

Assessment Types for Listening

• Cloze-tests
• Multiple choice tests
• True / False
• Short answers
• Information transfer (e.g. form filling- diagram completion, labelling, listen and draw, listen and colour)
• Ordering
• Listening logs
• Portfolio
• Self-assessment
• Peer-assessment
• Retellings
• Matching
• Observation (checklist /anecdotal records)
• Selecting / identifying specific information
• Note-taking