Chapter 6

Assessing Listening

OBSERVING THE PERFORMANCE THE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING Micro skills of Listening Macro skills of Listening DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS:
OF THE FOUR SKILLS INTENSIVE LISTENING RESPONSIVE liSTENING SELECTIVE IlSTENING EXTENSIVE LISTENING

Listening allows us to Microskills: Macroskills: recognize: rhetorical

1. Listening 2. Speaking demonstrate that we are paying Graphemes and distinctive sound, forms, communicative functions, Recognizing Phonological and ListeningCloze Dictation Communicative Stimulus-Response
attention to the thoughts, feelings retain chunks, process of efficient infer context, detect: relations, Morphological Elements Tasks
and behaviors of the other person. speed, recognize: a core of words, references, distinguish literal and Information Transfer Sentence Repetition Authentic Listening Tasks
3. Reading 4. Writing
grammatical, particular meaning, implied meaning, use strategies. Paraphrase Recognition
cohesive devices.