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Designing Listening Tests

Author : Rita Green
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349687715
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Listening Tests by : Rita Green

Download or read book Designing Listening Tests written by Rita Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file. The book discusses the role of the task identifier, the task instructions and the example, and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of different test methods. Guidelines for developing listening items, and procedures that can be used in peer review and task revision are also provided. A range of sample listening tasks illustrates the benefits of following the test development approach described in the book. Developing Listening Tests also provides insights into the advantages that field trials, statistical analyses and standard setting can offer the language test developer in determining how well their tasks work. This practical book will be of interest to researchers, language testers, testing commissions, and teachers engaged in assessing listening performance around the world.

Assessing Listening

Author : Gary Buck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521661625
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Listening written by Gary Buck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides language teachers with guidelines to develop suitable listening tests

Assessing Listening

Author : Gary Buck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521666619
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Assessing Listening by : Gary Buck

Download or read book Assessing Listening written by Gary Buck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines the major areas of listening research in an accessible manner and provides language teachers with guidelines to design and develop suitable listening tests for their students.

Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test

Author : John Field
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781797150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)

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Book Synopsis Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test by : John Field

Download or read book Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test written by John Field and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing second language listening proficiency validly and reliably has always posed a challenge. In the days before the widespread availability of recorded material, tests were reliant upon the voice of the examiner. Each test administration was a unique phonetic event, with enormous variations of delivery between examiners and even within the performance of a single examiner on different occasions. The presentation was read-aloud, and the texts chosen were often those that had been written to be read (including literary extracts). The resulting input to test takers bore little resemblance to natural connected speech.

Assessing L2 Listening

Author : Gary J. Ockey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263639
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Assessing L2 Listening by : Gary J. Ockey

Download or read book Assessing L2 Listening written by Gary J. Ockey and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of audio-visual texts; and assessing listening as part of an interactive speaking/listening construct. Each theme is introduced with a review of the relevant literature, and then is examined through either two or three empirical studies. The notion of authenticity underlies each of these four themes. By creating more authentic test tasks that are similar to real world language tasks, test developers can create listening assessments that not only more effectively assess test takers’ communicative competence, but can also have a positive washback effect on educational systems.

Examining Listening

Author : Ardeshir Geranpayeh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107602637
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Examining Listening by : Ardeshir Geranpayeh

Download or read book Examining Listening written by Ardeshir Geranpayeh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the nature of second language listening proficiency and how it can be assessed. The book highlights the need for test developers to provide a clear explication of the ability constructs which underpin the tests they offer in the public domain. This is increasingly necessary if claims about the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. It operationalises a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components, examining and then analysing Cambridge ESOL listening tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker; Cognitive Validity; Context Validity; Scoring Validity; Criterion-related Validity; and Consequential Validity.

Handbook of Second Language Assessment

Author : Dina Tsagari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501500864
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Second Language Assessment by : Dina Tsagari

Download or read book Handbook of Second Language Assessment written by Dina Tsagari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language assessment is ubiquitous. It has found its way from education into questions about access to professions and migration. This volume focuses on the main debates and research advances in second language assessment in the last fifty years or so, showing the influence of linguistics, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and psychometrics. There are four parts which, when taken together, address the principles and practices of second language assessment while considering its impact on society. Read separately, each part addresses a different aspect of the field. Part I deals with the conceptual foundations of second language assessment with chapters on the purposes of assessment, and standards and frameworks, as well as matters of scoring, quality assurance, and test validation. Part II addresses the theory and practice of assessing different second language skills including aspects like intercultural competence and fluency. Part III examines the challenges and opportunities of second language assessment in a range of contexts. In addition to chapters on second language assessment on a national scale, there are chapters on learning-oriented assessment, as well as the uses of second language assessment in the workplace and for migration. Part IV examines a selection of important issues in the field that deserve attention. These include the alignment of language examinations to external frameworks, the increasing use of technology to both deliver and score second language tests, the responsibilities associated with assessing test takers with special needs, the concept of 'voice' in second language assessment, and assessment literacy for teachers and other test and score users.

Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software

Author : Turel, Vehbi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799878783
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software by : Turel, Vehbi

Download or read book Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software written by Turel, Vehbi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive hypermedia listening software enables materials writers to combine and deliver a wide range of digital elements on the same digital computer platform more efficiently. Such a combination and delivery provides a multidimensional, multi-sensory digital environment in which rich, efficient, instant, comprehensible, optimum, and meaningful input and feedback can be presented effectively and efficiently. Moreover, language learners’ attention can be drawn to forms and meanings in input. Such aspects correspond with different theories and hypotheses of language learning and teaching. This presents users/learners with an environment that is easy to use, tension-free, and optimal during self-study. However, to be able to design and develop cost effective and professional adaptive hypermedia listening software, there are certain scientific educational findings and implications that need to be implemented at every single stage. To have access to such vital findings is not so easy, and research must address this area. Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software explores how to design and create technically and pedagogically sound and efficient interactive adaptive hypermedia listening software for language learners in any language. The chapters will cover learner strategy tools, the effectiveness of this technology, best practices in adaptive hypermedia listening software, and the benefits and challenges of this technology for language learning. It is ideal for companies, institutions, teachers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and decision-making pertinent government officials interested in designing and developing multimedia listening environments for language learners.

Listen Wise

Author : Monica Brady-Myerov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119755530
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Listen Wise by : Monica Brady-Myerov

Download or read book Listen Wise written by Monica Brady-Myerov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to engage your students effectively by strengthening their listening skills In Listen Wise: Teach Students to Be Better Listeners, journalist, entrepreneur, and author Monica Brady-Myerov delivers a concise and thoughtful treatment of how to build powerful listening skills in K-12 students. You’ll discover real-world examples and modern, research-based advice about helping young people improve their listening abilities and their overall academic performance. With personal anecdotes from the accomplished author and accessible excerpts from the latest neuroscience of listening and auditory learning, the book is a critical resource that will explain why listening is the missing piece of the literacy puzzle. This important book will show you: Classroom stories and teacher viewpoints that highlight effective strategies to teach critical listening Why building listening skills in students is crucial to improving reading, especially for English learners. Why the Lexile Framework for Listening is contributing to a surging recognition of the importance of listening in the academic curriculum Perfect for K-12 teachers looking for new ways to understand their students and how they learn, Listen Wise will also earn a place in the libraries of college and master’s level students in education.

A Test of Listening Comprehension

Author : Robert William Katterns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book A Test of Listening Comprehension written by Robert William Katterns and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar Approach

Author : Dylan Viñales
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar Approach by : Dylan Viñales

Download or read book Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar Approach written by Dylan Viñales and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the newly updated SECOND EDITION! This version has been fully re-checked for accuracy and re-formatted to make it even more user-friendly, following feedback after a full year of classroom use by thousands of teachers across the world. Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit includes: 1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions; 2) A set of vocabulary building activities; 3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text; 4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks; 5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar, vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book, which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar, vocabulary and question patterns.

Language Teaching, Pedagogy and Curriculum Design (Penerbit USM)

Author : Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi
Publisher : Penerbit USM
ISBN 13 : 9674611320
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Teaching, Pedagogy and Curriculum Design (Penerbit USM) by : Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi

Download or read book Language Teaching, Pedagogy and Curriculum Design (Penerbit USM) written by Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi and published by Penerbit USM. This book was released on 2017 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Teaching, Pedagogy and Curriculum Design explores the possibilities of how language teaching research can be used to inform pedagogy. It informs on the realisation among language teachers of the need to be informed on the contributions of research to language learning and to enable them to better reflect on instructional design and practices, and their underlying theories. This book is intended for ESL researchers, teachers and students, especially those who are interested in expanding and developing their knowledge in language teaching not just based on their own experiences in language classrooms but also on current contributions of research on issues in language teaching, pedagogy and curriculum in the region.

Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening

Author : Christine C. M. Goh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397912
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening by : Christine C. M. Goh

Download or read book Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening written by Christine C. M. Goh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this reader-friendly text offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. This book advocates a learner-oriented approach to teaching listening that focuses on the process of learning to listen. It applies theories of metacognition and language comprehension to offer sound and reliable pedagogical models for developing learner listening inside and outside the classroom. To bridge theory and practice, the book provides teachers with many examples of research-informed activities to help learners understand and manage cognitive, social, and affective processes in listening. Comprehensively updated with new research and references, the new edition includes additional and expanded discussions of many topics, including metacognition in young learners, working memory, and a L2 listening systems model. It remains an essential text on L2 listening pedagogy, theory, and research.

Teaching and Researching: Listening

Author : Michael Rost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131786266X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Researching: Listening written by Michael Rost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use, and shows how these processes influence listening in a range of practical contexts. Through understanding the interaction between these processes, language educators and researchers can develop more robust research methods and more effective classroom language teaching approaches. In this fully revised and updated second edition, the book: examines a full range of teaching methods and research initiatives related to listening gives definitions of key concepts in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics provides a clear agenda for implementing listening strategies and designing tests offers an abundance of resources for immediate use for teaching and research Featuring insightful quotes and concept boxes, chapter overviews and summaries to guide the reader, Teaching and Researching Listening will engage and inform teachers, teacher trainers and researchers investigating communicative language use.

Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System with Projects

Author : David B. Weems
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071781951
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Designing, Building, and Testing Your Own Speaker System with Projects written by David B. Weems and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own pro-quality loudspeakers. Don't settle for overpriced speaker systems from audio "boutiques." in Designing, Building and Testing Your Own Speaker System with Projects, Fourth Edition, David Weems guides you step-by-step through dozens of complete projects--from low-end to high-end. Packed with expert advice and cutting-edge design procedures, this complete do-it-yourself manual gives you invaluable tips and techniques for choosing the best woofers, tweeters and other speaker components...constructing speaker boxes...deciding on suitable crossover networks...selecting enclosures...designing unusual systems such as the double-chamber reflex...using PCs to design speaker systems...testing your completed system...and much more. You even get an innovative computer program that helps you dramatically speed the design and test process.

Understanding by Design

Author : Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416600353
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Understanding by Design written by Grant P. Wiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2005 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

CALL Design: Principles and Practice - Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands

Author : Sake Jager
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
ISBN 13 : 190841619X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis CALL Design: Principles and Practice - Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands by : Sake Jager

Download or read book CALL Design: Principles and Practice - Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands written by Sake Jager and published by Research-publishing.net. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, which was held from the 20th to the 23rd of August 2014 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.