Teaching Listening Skills in ELT: A Student's Guide
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Question: What are the main types of listening assessments mentioned?
Answer: Placement tests, progress tests, achievement tests, and proficiency tests.
Question: What is formative assessment in listening?
Answer: Ongoing, informal, process-oriented assessment used as a diagnostic tool to help students improve.
Question: What is summative assessment in listening?
Answer: Formal, results-oriented assessment used by schools/colleges/governments that gives students a grade.
Question: Give the analogy used to distinguish formative and summative assessment.
Answer: "When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment."
Question: What does validity refer to in listening testing?
Answer: Whether the test really measures what it is supposed to measure and whether interpretations/use of the test are appropriate.
Question: What does reliability mean for listening tests?
Answer: The certainty that the test will produce consistent results regardless of who marks it or the marker’s mood.
Question: List four factors that can make listening difficult or make listening tests unfair.
Answer: The message, the delivery, the listener, and the environment.
Question: Why can cultural issues in a listening passage make a test unfair?
Answer: If the passage discusses topics students know nothing about, the difficulty is background knowledge rather than listening ability.
Question: What classroom activities can be used during listening to check understanding beyond simple Q&A?
Answer: Tasks such as completion of grids, form/chart completion, text completion (gap-filling), note-taking, sequencing pictures, and spotting mistakes.
Question: Name three specific while-listening activities that focus on extracting specific information.
Answer: Seeking specific items or information, marking/checking items in pictures, and completing pictures or diagrams.