Understanding listening assessment: what every teacher should know

Chapter 1: Overview 0:00 Chapter 2: What does a listener need to do? Getting from a sound wave to meaning 4:58 Chapter 3: Which cognitive and contextual factors affect the Listener? 10:23 Chapter 4: What are the challenges for the L2 listener? 14:39 Chapter 5: What makes a listening comprehension item easy or difficult? 19:27 Chapter 6: Summary 39:24 Chapter 7: Q&A 41:43 Listening is the least researched language skill and perhaps the most difficult to teach. What makes a skilled listener? How does listening differ from reading? How does accent impact listening? These are some of the questions teachers face in their daily jobs. This webinar will address those (and other) questions and focus on various aspects of assessing listening such as cognitive and contextual factors affecting listening, variety of accents, linguistic resources and text and task purpose. Presenters: Ardeshir Geranpayeh and Mark Elliott Link to the slides: