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EL F KANTARCIO LU FOIA-12 APRIL, 2019 OVERVIEW TEST SPECIFICATIONS CONSTRUCTING LISTENING TESTS SCORING DECISIONS SOME CONSIDERATIONS A REVIEW OF TASK TYPES THE USE OF THE CEFR LISTENING SAID TO BE THE MOST


  1. EL İ F KANTARCIO Ğ LU FOIA-12 APRIL, 2019

  2. OVERVIEW • TEST SPECIFICATIONS • CONSTRUCTING LISTENING TESTS • SCORING DECISIONS – SOME CONSIDERATIONS • A REVIEW OF TASK TYPES • THE USE OF THE CEFR

  3. LISTENING • SAID TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT SKILL TO LEARN AND TEACH? BUT • MOST WIDELY USED ONE

  4. TEST SPECIFICATIONS

  5. CONTEXT VALIDITY (WEIR, 2005)

  6. TEST TAKERS? COGNITIVE PROCESSES? SCORING?

  7. WEIR, 2005

  8. PURPOSE • MEASURING AT A SINGLE LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY? • EASIER TO SAMPLE FROM THE TARGET LEVEL COMPETENCIES/OPERATIONS • MEASURING AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF PROFICIENCY? • SAMPLING DECISIONS MORE CRITICAL

  9. TEXT DIFFICULTY IN READING VS. TEXT DIFFICULTY IN LISTENING? • NOT POSSIBLE TO LOOK BACK AT THE TEXT • PACE AS A WHOLE • LENGTH • LINGUISTIC DIFFICULTY • TOPIC FAMILIARITY • INTERACTION BETWEEN SPEAKERS, IF ANY • ABSTRACTNESS • MONOLOGUE? DIALOGUE? CONVERSATION • LENGTH OF UTTERANCES AMONG MORE THAN 2 PEOPLE? • VOICES? • INFORMATION DENSITY AND COMPLEXITY • CLEAR ROLES? MOTHER AND CHILD? 2 • REDUNDANCY CLASSMATES? • REPETITION • TIME AND CONTEXT/SETTING • EXEMPLIFICATION • PLAYED ONCE? TWICE?

  10. CONSTRUCTING LISTENING TESTS

  11. TEXT CONSTRUCTION ITEM CONSTRUCTION • REFLECTING REAL LIFE TASKS AS MUCH AS • ITEMS FROM RECORDED TEXT NOT THE POSSIBLE SCRIPT • BACKGROUND NOISE • TEXT MAPS • SCRIPTED OR SEMI-SCRIPTED • KEEP ITEMS SUFFICIENTLY FAR APART • AVOID PASSAGES ORIGINALLY INTENDED • QUESTIONS SHOULD NOT BE ANSWERED FOR READING FROM GENERAL KNOWLEDGE • INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED AND RECORDED • LEXICAL OVERLAP • RECORDING QUALITY • VISUAL INPUT? • SOME TOPIC RELATED INFORMATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TEST

  12. WHICH STAGE TAKES PLACE FIRST? Text construction Item construction

  13. WHICH STAGE TAKES PLACE FIRST? Item construction Text construction

  14. Text Item Item Text

  15. SCORING

  16. SCORING • PENALISING LEARNERS FOR SPELLING AND GRAMMAR IN LISTENING • WEIGHTING – EQUAL POINTS FOR ALL QUESTIONS? • STUDENTS SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW THEIR TESTS WILL BE SCORED? • PRIOR TO THE TEST • DURING THE TEST • NUMBER OF CORRECT RESPONSES SHOULD BE LIMITED FOR A GIVEN QUESTION • MAKES MARKING EASIER AND FAIR • WHAT ARE YOU MEASURING?

  17. TASK TYPES

  18. TASK TYPES • MC • READING LOAD?!?! • T/F • READING LOAD?!?! • THE TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN • SUITABLE AS A LISTENING TASK?

  19. TASK TYPES • GAP-FILL • WRITING LOAD?!?! • THE NUMBER OF WORDS EXPECTED NEEDS TO BE SHARED WITH THE STUDENTS • SPELLING • WORDS SPELT OUT • GRAMMAR MARKING BECOMES MORE SUBJECTIVE • SENTENCE COMPLETION • CLEAR CONTEXT • ONE OR A LIMITED NUMBER OF CORRECT ANSWERS

  20. THE USE OF THE CEFR

  21. PROGRESSION OF PROFICIENCY IN CEFR (FIELD, 2019

  22. THE DUTCH CEFR CONSTRUCT PROJECT (ALDERSON ET AL. 2006) THE AIM IS • TO DEVELOP A TOOL TO HELP DESCRIBE THE CONSTRUCT OF READING AND LISTENING UNDERLYING TEST ITEMS, TASKS, AND WHOLE TESTS IN RELATION TO THE CEFR • CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INPUT TEXT • CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ITEM IT WAS PUBLISHED BEFORE THE CEFR CV WAS RELEASED • THE GRID

  23. B1 I CAN UNDERSTAND THE MAIN POINTS OF SCRIPT CLEAR STANDARD SPEECH ON FAMILIAR • SPEECH ON FAMILIAR MATTERS MATTERS REGULARLY ENCOUNTERED IN WORK, • FACTUAL INFORMATION SCHOOL, LEISURE, ETC. I CAN UNDERSTAND THE MAIN POINT OF MANY RADIO OR TV • MAIN MESSAGES REPEATED PROGRAMS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS OR TOPICS • PROGRAMS IN THE MEDIA OF PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL INTEREST WHEN THE DELIVERY IS RELATIVELY SLOW AND OPERATIONS CLEAR. • MAIN IDEAS / MESSAGES RECORDING • RELATIVELY SLOW AND CLEAR STANDARD SPEECH

  24. B2 SCRIPT I CAN UNDERSTAND EXTENDED • ANY SPEECH ON REASONABLY FAMILIAR TOPICS, INCLUDING SPEECH AND LECTURES AND FOLLOW EXTENDED SPEECH • COMPLEX ARGUMENTS EVEN COMPLEX LINES OF ARGUMENT • LECTURES PROVIDED THAT THE TOPIC IS • PROGRAMS IN THE MEDIA AND FILMS REASONABLY FAMILIAR. I CAN OPERATIONS UNDERSTAND MOST TV NEWS AND • MAIN IDEAS AND SPECIFIC INFORMATION • COMPLEX IDEAS AND LANGUAGE CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES. I • SPEAKER’S VIEWPOINTS AND ATTITUDES CAN UNDERSTAND THE MAJORITY OF RECORDING FILMS IN STANDARD DIALECT. • STANDARD DIALECT • IDIOMATIC USAGE • REASONABLY NOISY ENVIRONMENTS

  25. REFERENCES • ALDERSON ET AL. (2006). ANALYSING TESTS OF READING AND LISTENING IN RELATION TO THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE DUTCH CEFR CONSTRUCT PROJECT. LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY, 31(1) 3-10. • FIELD, J. (2008). LISTENING IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. • WEIR, C. (2005). LANGUAGE TESTING AND VALIDATION: AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH. OXFORD: PALGRAVE. • FIELD, J. (2019). RETHINKING THE SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING TESTS FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE. BRITISH COUNCIL MONOGRAPHS 2. SOUTH YORKSHIRE: EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD.

  26. THANK YOU 

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