1. Chapter 7 & 8. Assessing Listening & Speaking
H. D. BROWN

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. Assessing Speaking
Responsive speaking-Q & A(closed vs referential), Giving instructions/directions, Paraphrasing, TSE(See examples & rubric on p )
Interactive speaking-Interview (see ACTFL OPI rubric, p , 214, 217), Role play, Discussion & conversation, Debate, Games)
Extensive-Oral presentations, Picture-cued storytelling, Retelling, translation of text,