Authentic Listening Tasks

Authentic Listening Tasks

1. Ideally, listening tests are cognitively demanding, communicative, authentic, and interaction.

2. Test as a sample of performance/tasks implies an equally limited capacity to mirror all the real-world context of listening performance

3. “ Every test requires some components of communicative language ability, and no test covers them all” Buck (2001, p. 92).

   • Note taking
     • Listening to a lecturer and write down the important ideas.
       • Disadvantage: scoring is time consuming
         • Advantages: mirror real classroom situation it fulfills the criteria of cognitive demand, communicative language & authenticity
   • Editing
     • Editing a written stimulus of an aural stimulus
       • Test-takers read : The written stimulus material Test-takers hear: a spoken version of the stimulus Test-takers mark: the written stimulus by circling any words
   • Interpretive Tasks: Paraphrasing a story or conversation
     • Potential stimuli include: song lyrics, poetry, radio, TV, news reports, etc.
       • The stimuli can be directed through questions like: “why was the singer feeling sad?”, “what do you think the political activists might do next?”
         • Difficulties: The task conforms to certain time limitation, and the questions might be quite specific, there may be more than one correct interpretation (scoring)
   • Retelling
     • Listen to a story or news event and simply retell it either orally or written: Show full comprehension
       • Difficulties: scoring and reliability, validity, cognitive, communicative ability, authenticity are well incorporated into the task.
   • Interactive listening (face to face conversations)

Images and files in the map