The Role of Visual Components in Teaching and Assessing Listening Comprehension


Seminar Paper, 2011

22 Pages, Grade: 1,0

Anonymous


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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The theoretical background of listening comprehension
2.1 Mental processes
2.2 Components of listening comprehension
2.3 Parameters of spoken texts and requirements for decoding
2.4 Determination of text difficulty
2.5 Designing listening comprehension tests: problems and task variety
2.5.1 General problems of assessing listening comprehension
2.5.1.1 Preparations: finding a suitable text and equipment issues
2.5.1.2 Language proficiency as a combination of different abilities
2.5.1.3 The inevitability of testing remembrance capacity
2.5.1.4 The difficulty of determining correct answers
2.5.1.5 Strategies for fair assessment
2.5.2 Test types for listening comprehension
2.5.2.1 Global vs. detail questions
2.5.2.2 Formats suitable for low-proficient learners
2.5.2.3 Formats suitable for high-proficient learners

3. Putting listening comprehension into practice
3.1 The role of non-verbal signals
3.2 Lesson Plan
3.3 Description of the experiment
3.4 Adaption
3.5 Thesis
3.6 The assessment sheet as basis for evaluation
3.7 Evaluation and interpretation of the results

4. Conclusion

5. List of Works Cited

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Title
The Role of Visual Components in Teaching and Assessing Listening Comprehension
College
University of Regensburg  (Institut für Didaktik Englisch)
Grade
1,0
Year
2011
Pages
22
Catalog Number
V299974
ISBN (eBook)
9783668326712
ISBN (Book)
9783668326729
File size
427 KB
Language
English
Keywords
role, visual, components, teaching, assessing, listening, comprehension
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Anonymous, 2011, The Role of Visual Components in Teaching and Assessing Listening Comprehension, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/299974

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