Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

2.5 Discourse Signaling Cues of Academic Lectures.............. Logical relation of sentences and the macro as well as micro str ...

Dunkel and Davis (1994) indicated that discourse markers did not have significant influence on L2 listeners’comprehension of Eng ...

subordinate points attached to them”. Inside academic listeners’mind, building a discourse structure is crucially important. Fie ...

2.7 Note-Taking of Academic Lectures........................ In the bulk of literature concerning academic listening, note-takin ...

2.8 Importance of Investigating Lecture Comprehension Construct Buchman argued in his AUA model (2010) that test developers need ...

All the same, based on Ebel’sdefinition, a psychological construct is not directly assessed but the theoretical construct can be ...

assess the high-level discourse construction generated by the listener with reference to the lecture. In light of this, Chap. 3 ...

Chapter 3 Approaches to Assessment of Lecture Comprehension 3.1 Introduction.......................................... This chap ...

Since listening is a unique type of ability that qualifies L2 learners as competent communicators, a framework that describes li ...

ability to identify role of discourse markers in signaling structure of a lecture (e.g., conjunctions, adverbs, gambits, routin ...

3.2.2 The Strategy Approach............................ Bachman’sdefinition of language ability as“a capacity that enables langu ...

strategies, test-taking strategies also include test-manage strategies which are strategies for“responding meaningfully to test ...

Studies on listening skills and strategies form a big bulk of literature concerning listening comprehension. Arguably, the resul ...

Weir (2005) also stresses the importance of an understanding of the processes underlying the L2 skill to be tested and of applyi ...

process during listening comprehension was restructured by Field (2008, 2013) whose latest listening model (Field 2013) is prese ...

“a sentence can be represented as propositions consisting of two or more concepts and some form of relation between them”(Carrol ...

closely associated with learning rather than language use or test-taking and believes that the ability to “retrieve” information ...

step. With limited cognitive capacity, listeners cannot process all the information simultaneously; they need to select informat ...

test-takers’ cognitive processing while they are taking IELTS reading tests. Similarly, the current study would also describe an ...

authentic oral discourse, etc., we need to provide test-takers with lectures con- taining those authentic spoken language charac ...