Ma. Abbygale B.

Ojales

ABELS 3B

Assessing Listening: How Do We Do It?

We listen more in a day than we speak. As much as we credit speaking as the

primary basis for a person’s competence in a language, we need to address the fact that
without our primal instinct to listen, we may not have the chance to comprehend or reply
to a certain statement. And that’s why, it’s important to pay attention to listening as a
mode of performance for assessments in classroom discussions.

The unit discussed all about assessing listening, one of the four basic language
skills. The topics discussed were the basic types of listening (intensive, extensive,
responsive, selective), its importance, micro- and macro-skills of listening, and designing
assessment tasks that belong under the respective basic listening types.

As functional human beings, it’s our instinct to listen to facts, statements,

questions, or even trivia. Unless you have hearing problems, we can say that listening
makes us whole, meaning, we cannot live without the use of our ears. As a student,
listening is an integral part of going to school and gaining your degree; I simply cannot do
well if I didn’t bother listening to the information that I need in order for me to do something.
From small to big ideas, I’ve learned to listen and comprehend what the teacher or my
classmates are saying because it’s important to know the things that are jotted down in
our minds. For this CERA activity alone, I am practicing my skills in listening, because
what would the content of this paper be if I didn’t go on and listen to my teacher discuss
about it?

I’ve learned so much about listening from this unit. More importantly, how I can
easily distinguish the different types of listening that I use in everyday life. For example,
in making CERAs, I tapped in my extensive listening, although I am in a classroom-based
scenario, because I need my usual way of listening to the teacher as I gain information
from her. With that, I am able to write this CERA, and without it, there wouldn’t be an easy
way of knowing and explaining things in this sheet of paper.

It's altogether essential and important to apply what I’ve learned from this lesson,
simply because listening is a normal part of our routine. As future educators, learning all
the different fundamentals under this mode of testing will enable me to enhance my way
of teaching and help my students achieve language competency through listening.
Although it’s only second to speaking, it’s still our job as teachers to hone our students’
skills in comprehending messages, and not just saying it.