Handout 2. Teaching Listening Assessment Checklist: After the listening lesson students could be able to:
. know their reason for listening.
. activate what they know about the topic.
. use their background knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning.
. recall important words and structures.
. guess unknown words and expressions.
. organize what they hear.
. discriminate between sounds.
. use expressions in real life situations.
. use intonation and stress when saying grammatical structures.
. tell the main idea of the listening text.
. use content words in sentences of their own.
. understand and use reduced forms.
Handout 3. What aspects of listening does the theacher assess? 1. Listening comprehension of meaning in texts (surface meaning explicitly stated in texts)
2. Decoding of words/intonation patterns/ etc.
3. Comprehension of structural organisation of texts (e.g. connecting words, etc.)
4. Listening as scanning
5. Listening as skimming
6. Listening for main idea
7. Listening for details.
8. Listening extensively
9. Interpreting message
10. Inferencing meaning
11. Listening to a variety of input (formal, informal, transactional, interactional, variety of accents, speech rates, etc.)
12. Listening strategies
13. Attitudes to listening
Handout 4. Assessment Types for Listening
Cloze-tests
Multiple choice tests
True / False
Short answers
Information transfer (e.g. form filling- diagram completion, labelling, listen and draw, listen and colour)
