Methods and criteria for assessing listining skills

Methods and criteria for assessing Listening skills

What is hearing and listening?

• Hearing = physical
• Listening = emotional
• • Hear = ear
• Listen = heart
• • Listening = following and

understanding the sound.

• Listening = hearing with a purpose
• • Listening = absorption of the meanings

of words and sentences by the brain

What makes listening difficult?

• 1. Low Concentration
• 2. Trying too hard
• 3. Jumping ahead
• 4. Focus on style
• 5. Cultural Difference

What makes listening difficult?

Low concentration can be the result of:

• • Psychological situation:

– lack of interest in the subject material, stress or personal bias.

• • Physical situations:

– such as visual distractions physical discomfort.

What makes listening difficult?

• Listeners need to prioritize the information they receive to pick out what is most important.

• Often, the listeners only get the information that is less pertinent or even not relevant at all.

• When listeners give equal weight to everything they hear, it makes it difficult to organize and retain the information they need.

Types of listening

• Intensive : phonemes, words, intonation
• • Responsive: a greeting, command, question
• • Selective : TV , radio news items, stories
• • Extensive : listening for the gist, the main idea, making inference

Intensive listening

• 1. Recognizing Phonological & Morphological Elements

a. Phonemics pair, consonants

Test-takers hear : He’s from California

Test-takers read :

a. He’s from California

b. She’s from California

Intensive listening

• b. Phonemics pair, vowels
• c. Morphological pair, -ed ending
• Test-takers hear : Is he living?
• Test-takers read:
• a. Is he leaving ?
• b. Is he living?
• Test-takers hear : I missed You very much.
• Test-takers read :
• a. I missed you very much
• b. I miss you very much