Assessing L2 listening : moving towards authenticity / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ockey, Gary J., author.

Wagner, Elvis, author.

Series:

Language learning & language teaching (LL&LT), 1569-9471 ; Volume 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Second language acquisition.

Listening comprehension.

Listening--Ability testing.

Listening.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

"This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of audio-visual texts; and assessing listening as part of an interactive speaking/listening construct. Each theme is introduced with a review of the relevant literature, and then is examined through either two or three empirical studies. The notion of authenticity underlies each of these four themes. By creating more authentic test tasks that are similar to real world language tasks, test developers can create listening assessments that not only more effectively assess test takers' communicative competence, but can also have a positive washback effect on educational systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An overview of the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts on L2 listening tests / Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey

A comparison of L2 listening performance on tests with scripted or authenticated spoken texts / Elvis Wagner

Connected-speech dictations for testing listening / James Dean Brown and Jonathan Trace

An overview of the issue of using different types of speech varieties as listening inputs in L2 listening assessment / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner

Reliability and sources of score variance in a strength of accent measure / Gary J. Ockey

Listening to an unfamiliar accent: exploring difficulty, strategy use, and evidence of adaptation on listening assessment tasks / Luke Harding

Different varieties of world Englishes : perceptual judgments and speech characteristics / Okim Kang and Megan Moran

An overview of the use of audio-visual texts on L2 listening tests / Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey

Test takers' use of visual information in an L2 video-mediated listening test: evidence from cued retrospective reporting / Ruslan Suvorov

Investigating the impact of nonverbal communication cues on listening item types / Aaron Olaf Batty

An overview of interactive listening as part of the construct of interactive and integrated oral test tasks / Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner

The degree to which it matters if an oral test task requires listening / Gary J. Ockey

Investigating examiner interventions in relation to the listening demands they make on candidates in oral interview tests / Fumiyo Nakatsuhara

A measurement model for listen-speak tasks / Ikkyu Choi and Youngsoon So.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.