The following items are the abilities possibly tested by TEM 8 Mini-lecture
and Gap-filling Task. Please read carefully and tick (√) the number you think
the most appropriate.
1 ¼not agree at all 2¼not agree 3¼not sure 4¼agree 5¼quite agree
- Ability to identify sounds of key words 12345
- Ability to know the speaker’s intention and attitude by discriminating
sound and intonation patterns (including stress, pause, rhythm, tone, etc)
12345- Ability to discriminate and decode different accents 12345
- Ability to follow the speaker’s speech rate 12345
- Ability to deduce the meaning of new words from the context of the audio
input
12345- Ability to deduce the meaning of new words from the context of the
gap-filling task
12345- Ability to identify and understand the literal meaning of the mini-lecture
while listening to it
12345- Ability to understand the key words of the lecture 12345
- Ability to identify the key concepts, e.g., definition, quantity, comparison,
time, place, method, reason, etc
12345- Ability to understand relations within the sentence 12345
- Ability to identify the topic of the lecture and the scope of knowledge in
it
12345- Ability to understand the main idea of the lecture with the help of one’s
background knowledge
12345- Ability to infer the main idea and key information of the lecture from the
given information in the task
12345- Ability to infer the speaker’s attitude toward the subject matter 12345
- Ability to identify relationships among major units within the discourse
(e.g. major idea, explanation, classification, generalization, emphasis,
exemplification, hypotheses, anticipation of an objection, etc)
12345- Ability to identify the major ideas with the help of macro discourse
marker, e.g.,first, second, etc
12345- Ability to identify relationships among major ideas within discourse with
the help of macro discourse markers (e.g., explanation, classification,
generalization, emphasis, summarization, exemplification)
12345- Ability to master the macro structure of the lecture through macro
discourse markers, e.g.,first, second, etc
12345- Ability to distinguish the main idea from supporting details, primary
information from secondary information, statement form example
12345- Ability to understand the connotation in the lecture through its literary
meaning
12345- Ability to infer relationships (e.g., comparison, cause and effect,
conclusion) through details of the lecture
12345- Ability to identify specific details of the lecture through micro discourse
markers (e.g., well, yes, en, ah, uh, etc)
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