Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

1. Do the four gap types really target the level of cognitive processing they are
   calibrated to?


2. How differently do the test-takers respond to the four gap types of the gap-filling
   task?

Decoding and selective attention

Reading notes

Memorizing words

Reading the task

Parsing the structure

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Monitoring process

Assessing comprehension

Checking semantic coherence

Checking grammatical acceptability

Checking quantity

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Make a final decision

Schema

Wo r l d

Topic

Test-wiseness strategies

Skipping the difficult items

Predicting the tester’s

intention

Guessing randomly

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Meaning and discourse construction

Interpreting

Inferring from the task

Using schema

Inferring from notes

Summarizing

Building coherence

Identifying key words

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Fig. 6.3 The cognitive operation model of the test-taking phase.........

94 6 Employing the Think-Alound Method...