Assessing L2 Listening

Moving towards authenticity

Gary J. Ockey | Iowa State University

Elvis Wagner | Temple University

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This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of audio-visual texts; and assessing listening as part of an interactive speaking/listening construct. Each theme is introduced with a review of the relevant literature, and then is examined through either two or three empirical studies. The notion of authenticity underlies each of these four themes. By creating more authentic test tasks that are similar to real world language tasks, test developers can create listening assessments that not only more effectively assess test takers’ communicative competence, but can also have a positive washback effect on educational systems.

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 50] 2018. xvii, 278 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.50

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. xii–xvi

Acknowledgments | p. xvii

Chapter 1. Introduction

Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner | pp. 2–10

Section I. The use of authentic, real-world spoken texts on L2 listening tests

Chapter 2. An overview of the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts on L2 listening tests

Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey | pp. 14–28

Chapter 3. A comparison of L2 listening performance on tests with scripted or authenticated spoken texts

Elvis Wagner | pp. 30–43

Chapter 4. Connected-speech dictations for testing listening

James Dean Brown and Jonathan Trace | pp. 46–63

Section II. Using different types of speech varieties as listening inputs in L2 listening assessment

Chapter 5. An overview of the issue of using different types of speech varieties as listening inputs in L2 listening assessment

Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner | pp. 68–81

Chapter 6. Reliability and sources of score variance in a strength of accent measure

Gary J. Ockey | pp. 84–95

Chapter 7. Listening to an unfamiliar accent: Exploring difficulty, strategy use, and evidence of adaptation on listening assessment tasks

Luke Harding | pp. 98–112

Chapter 8. Different varieties of World Englishes: Perceptual judgments and speech characteristics

Okim Kang and Meghan Moran | pp. 114–126

Section III. The use of audio-visual texts on L2 listening tests

Chapter 9. An overview of the use of audio-visual texts on L2 listening tests

Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey | pp. 130–144

Chapter 10. Test takers’ use of visual information in an L2 video-mediated listening test: Evidence from cued retrospective reporting

Ruslan Suvorov | pp. 146–160

Chapter 11. Investigating the impact of nonverbal communication cues on listening item types

Aaron Olaf Batty | pp. 162–175

Section IV. Interactive listening as part of the construct of interactive and integrated oral test tasks

Chapter 12. An overview of interactive listening as part of the construct of interactive and integrated oral test tasks

Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner | pp. 180–192

Chapter 13. The degree to which it matters if an oral test task requires listening

Gary J. Ockey | pp. 194–204

Chapter 14. Investigating examiner interventions in relation to the listening demands they make on candidates in oral interview tests

Fumiyo Nakatsuhara | pp. 206–225

Chapter 15. A measurement model for listen-speak tasks

Ikkyu Choi and Youngsoon So | pp. 228–245

Chapter 16. Conclusion

Elvis Wagner and Gary J. Ockey | pp. 248–256

References | pp. 257–273

Index

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