Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

R: But do you think active learners should be the key point if lecturers are delivering that kind of speech, right? Zhou: Yes, I ...

Wei: I shall follow the order of lecture. First, positive, oh, no active learners’character- istics, and then later passive lear ...

final academic lecture comprehension can be summarized asSAIC—selection, association, integration and coherence. Finally, thefin ...

Chapter 9 Conclusion and Recommendations 9.1 Introduction This chapter willfirst present the verified framework for Lecture Comp ...

The task domainin the verified framework encompasses major variables such as task input; task targets; task setting and task dem ...

linguistic knowledge, pragmatic knowledge, cultural knowledge, content knowl- edge, etc. According to the teachers’and students’ ...

Contingent upon identifying key points and their relationship, constructing a macro-level discourse structure should facilitate ...

meaning and discourse construction. High achievers’and low achievers’meaning and discourse construction is vastly different, esp ...

emphasized that listening test developers should transform script-based item writing to real listening-based item writing. If te ...

variation in pronunciation, intonation and accent, following the lecturer’s speed, etc., is one of the important mini-lecture co ...

test-takers are asked to summarize this paragraph in their own words while listening to it, the category wordsituationcould be o ...

Therefore, combination of formats or integration of different test types can neutralize disadvantages of a single test format or ...

everything said by the lecturer and hence it is necessary to train them to select something important and relevant while listeni ...

can easily identify what goes wrong, i.e., which word is hard to be decoded, what syllables are hard to identify, where the assi ...

heard without making sense of it while listening to an academic lecture cannot manage to construct the discourse successfully. F ...

them. The reasons for the central role of paraphrase lie in two aspects:first, the fact that any utterance can be paraphrased in ...

More innovative research methods need to be developed to measure mental representation of spoken discourses. More empirical rese ...

Appendix 1 Questionnaire on Teachers’Perceptions of TEM 8 Mini-Lecture and Gap-Filling Task Dear teachers, In order to understan ...

The following items are the abilities possibly tested by TEM 8 Mini-lecture and Gap-filling Task. Please read carefully and tick ...

(continued) Ability to identify relationships among details within discourse with the help of micro discourse markers (e.g., we ...