Chapter 7 & 8. Assessing Listening & Speaking H. D. BROWN
Assessing Listening Evaluation involves psychometric, educational, & political issues. Importance of INTEGRATION OF Skills!! Focus on Form vs. Focus on Forms (in)direct measure of performance (observation) Triangulate by using multiple tools
Assessing Listening Bias toward Speaking & lack of research & tool for assessing listening Types of listening-Intensive, Responsive, Selective, Extensive Related to interactive skills such as note-taking, questioning, discussion Balance in mirco- & macro-skills (See p. 163)
Assessing Listening Focus on Clustering, Redundancy, Reduced Forms, Performance variables, Colloquial language, Discourse markers, Rate of speech, Stress/rhythm/intonation, Interaction Designing tasks for different types of listening (See p. 164-) Intensive listening-Recognition of phonological & morphological features, Paraphrase recognition
Assessing Listening Responsive Listening-Choosing right answers Selective Listening-Listening cloze, Information transfer, Sentence repetition Extensive Listening-Dictation, Communicative S-R tasks, Authentic listening tasks (note-taking, editing, interpreting, retelling)
Assessing Speaking Assess performance with rubrics (measurement issue: reliable, valid?) Type of speaking: Imitative, Intensive, Responsive, Interactive, Extensive(monologue) Balance micro- & macro-skills (See p. 186) Combination of Oral & Aural (reading), difficulty of giving prompts due to different answers possible, specific rubric required
Assessing Speaking Designing speaking tasks -Imitative: pronunciation, suprasegmentals (e.g., Versant, PhonePass, Oral Proficiency Interview: OPI by ACTFL, computerized or speech recognition) -Intensive: Read-aloud, Sentence/dialogue completion & oral questionnaires, Picture-cued, Translation with limited input
Assessing Speaking Responsive speaking-Q & A(closed vs referential), Giving instructions/directions, Paraphrasing, TSE(See examples & rubric on p. 205-206) Interactive speaking-Interview (see ACTFL OPI rubric, p. 212-213, 214, 217), Role play, Discussion & conversation, Debate, Games) Extensive-Oral presentations, Picture-cued storytelling, Retelling, translation of text,