Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

of the test-taking strategies specifically targeting MCQ test format can improve test performance (Powers and Rock 1999; Dude an ...

3.4 Approaches to Assessment of Lecture Comprehension.......... Academic listening assessment carried out in a target academic d ...

time; thereafter, since 1984 revision, one or more constructed response tasks have been part of the listening subtest (Boroughs ...

Chapter 4 Task Characteristics of TEM 8 Mini-Lecture Comprehension 4.1 Introduction.......................................... In ...

4.2 Task Characteristics of TEM 8 Mini-Lecture Comprehension.... Douglas (2000) summarized two aspects of language testing that ...

According to the test purpose and the target listening domains and tasks, TEM 8 academic listening subtest needs to cover the fo ...

4.3 The Test Format of TEM 8 Mini-Lecture Comprehension....... Test measures must vary in order to construct authentic target-la ...

TEM 8 Mini-lecture and Gap-filling task is composed of four types of gaps. 1. Gaps that target key points of the mini-lecture; 2 ...

presented to validate and verify the theoretical framework of TEM 8 Lecture Comprehension Construct (LCC). Figure4.1presents a g ...

How can the task domain be conceptualized? How can the competence domain be conceptualized? How do the task domain and competen ...

kind of interaction? Traditionally, selected response format such as MCQ is pre- ferred in high-stakes tests with a prominent ad ...

...language ability as consisting of two components: (1) language knowledge, sometimes referred to as‘competence,’and (2) cognit ...

In the following chapters, task targets and task demands in the task domain, cognitive processes in the competence domain will b ...

Chapter 5 Exploring Task Demands of TEM 8 Mini-Lecture Comprehension 5.1 Introduction.......................................... ...

The holistic task demand covering both teachers’and students’perceptions shall be triangulated with the cognitive processes elic ...

covers two stages, the stage of listening to the mini-lecture and taking notes simultaneously and the stage of doing the corresp ...

5.5 Results of Questionnaire Survey........................... The questionnaire data are analyzed via SPSS 21.0. Data analysis ...

Table 5.3 Descriptive statistics of teacher questionnaire Descriptive statistics N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation Age 177 2 ...

The skill part in the questionnaire adopts Likertfive-point scale and the mean point of every item ranges from 1 to 5. The mean ...

Table 5.4 Descriptive statistics of student questionnaire Descriptive statistics N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation Age 204 1 ...