Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

presented to validate and verify the theoretical framework of TEM 8 Lecture
Comprehension Construct (LCC).
Figure4.1presents a graphic representation of the framework, showing how the
validity components related to lecture comprehension contribute to the overall
validation of the construct and how they interact with each other. The framework
mainly focuses on the following three issues:

TASK DOMAIN

Task input

Authenticity of input (discourse

markers; speech rate; accent)

Discourse mode and complexity

Channel of presentation

Content knowledge

Task targets

Key points

Details

Inferences

Summaries

Task setting

Weighting

Time constraints

Knowledge of criteria

Task demand

Knowledge resources

Skills needed

COMPETENCE DOMAIN

Cognitive processes

Decoding input

Fixation

Selection

Meaning construction

Contextualization

Elaboration

Inferencing

Discourse structure building

Main points

Subordinate details

Hierarchical pattern

Monitoring

Real time assessment

Comprehension evaluation

TEST-TAKER

RESPONSE

TEST-TAKER CHARACTERISTICS

Physical/physiological

Psychological

Experiential

Fig. 4.1 A proposed framework for LCC (adapted from Weir 2005).....

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