Assessing Listening

Self-Assessment about Assessing Listening (Part I)

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Below you will find some cases depicting different tests that need to be taken or administered. Answer the bold-faced question at the end of each description with the correct type of tests.

1. Intensive-Basic-English students from the University of El Salvador are having an exam in two days. Therefore, all teachers are administering test practices that help students know what the structure of the real test will be. Teachers have chosen a small podcast that describes someone’s daily routine. What students have to do is to order the events chronologically. What kind of listening performance is being assessed in this task? 2. Second year students of high school are participating in a research. They will be tested on their listening skills and their ability to accurately answer to what they listen to. Therefore, the recording does not have a talk or a conversation. It is a set of questions that students will listen to in order to match the responses with what they have on an answer sheet. Students will listen to the questions, and they will write the questions to match answers correctly. What kind of listening performance is being assessed in this task?

• Selective
• Responsive
• Intensive
• Extensive

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• Responsive
• Selective
• Intensive
• Extensive

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Self-Assessment about Assessing Listening (Part II)

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Below you will find some cases depicting different tests that need to be taken or administered. Answer the bold-faced question at the end of each description with the correct type of tests.

3. Students from English Phonetics are having a midterm exam next week. They will listen to some sentences in some tracks. The objective of that type of listening exam is that students are able to identify some specific sounds being studied. What kind of listening performance is being assessed in this task? 4. Teacher López has been assigned the preparation of the listening exam for the highest level at the language academy he works for. He considers that students already have advanced language skills, so he believes that students have to be asked to infer information rather than just writing what they hear on the listening. What kind of listening performance is being assessed in this task?

• Intensive
• Selective
• Extensive
• Responsive

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• Extensive
• Responsive
• Selective
• Intensive

XX

Correct words

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