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Because the ability to understand spoken language is such an important aspect of second language (L2) proficiency, the assessment of L2 listening is a vital component of any test or assessment that purports to be assessing a learner's communicative competence. Assessing L2 listening ability generally involves presenting spoken input to test-takers, and then test-takers have to respond in some way (e.g., answer comprehension questions, provide a spoken response, complete a task, etc.). But because listening (like reading) is an internal process, assessing listening ability presents unique challenges to test developers; indeed, Buck ( ) argues that listening is the most difficult of the four skills to assess, and thus test developers should focus on those aspects of language that are unique to listening when creating assessment tasks.When testing L2 listening, test developers have to find or create the spoken input that will be provided for the test-takers, and selecting the most appropriate input presents a number of choices for the test developers. First, test developers need to decide if appropriate spoken texts should be found from existing texts, or whether they should create sp

Author

Elvis Wagner

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030791445

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Linguistics