Descriere - Assessing Listening
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.
Contents: 1. An overview of listening comprehension; 2. What is unique to listening; 3. Approaches to assessing listening; 4. Defining the construct; 5. Creating tasks; 6. Providing suitable texts; 7. Designing and constructing whole assessments; 8. Illustrative tests of listening comprehension; 9. Summary and future developments