Lecture Chapter 6: Listening comprehension tests presented Careful selected practice materia an effective way of developing listening skill used for testing listening comprehension .an awareness of ways in which the spoken language differs from the written language is crucially important in testing listening comprehension skills. | Chapter 6: Listening comprehension tests I. General Careful selected practice material an effective way of developing listening skill used for testing listening comprehension an awareness of ways in which the spoken language differs from the written language is crucially important in testing listening comprehension skills some conventional features such as repetition, hesitation and grammatical patterns are essential for the understanding of spoken English the tape recorder is the only way of ensuring compete uniformity of presentation and thus a high degree of reliability auditory tests are divided into two broad categories: (i) tests of phoneme discrimination and of sensitivity to stress and intonation, and (ii) tests of listening comprehension The condition of being the same throughout II. Phoneme discrimination tests Type 1: The test consists of a picture, accompanied by three or four words spoken by the examiner in person or tape. Type 2: The testees hear three sentences . | Chapter 6: Listening comprehension tests I. General Careful selected practice material an effective way of developing listening skill used for testing listening comprehension an awareness of ways in which the spoken language differs from the written language is crucially important in testing listening comprehension skills some conventional features such as repetition, hesitation and grammatical patterns are essential for the understanding of spoken English the tape recorder is the only way of ensuring compete uniformity of presentation and thus a high degree of reliability auditory tests are divided into two broad categories: (i) tests of phoneme discrimination and of sensitivity to stress and intonation, and (ii) tests of listening comprehension The condition of being the same throughout II. Phoneme discrimination tests Type 1: The test consists of a picture, accompanied by three or four words spoken by the examiner in person or tape. Type 2: The testees hear three sentences and have to indicate which are the same and which are different. Type 3: Testees are required to choose the written word which corresponds to the spoken word. Notes These items used for diagnostic testing purposes, enabling the teacher to concentrate later on specific pronunciation They useful when candidates having the same L1 background & when a contrastive analysis of L1 & L2 can be used. The ability to discriminate between certain phonemes very difficult for native speakers. III. Tests of stress and intonation Tests of stress and intonation: less satisfactory than the phoneme discrimination tests b/c of # reasons: Most tests are impure as they test other skills at the same time. These items are artificial as they test rarer but more testable features. IV. Statements and dialogues These tests designed to measure: how well students can understand short samples of speech how well they deal with a variety of signals on lexical and grammatical levels of phonology TYPE 1 included in a
