Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks The Trio of Task Demands, Cognitive Processes and Language Competence /

• Main Author: Wang, Haiping (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Assessment.; Applied Linguistics.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

This book explores the effectiveness of listen-to-summarize tasks as a tool to assess lecture comprehension ability. It especially focuses on listen-to-summarize tasks that represent listeners' meaning building and the discourse construction of the lecture for listening assessment purposes.  It...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Theory of Academic Lecture Comprehension
• Chapter 3 Using Listen-to-summarize Tasks to Assess Lecture Comprehension
• Chapter 4 Task Characteristics of TEM 8 Mini-lecture Comprehension
• Chapter 5 Exploring Task Demands of TEM 8 Min-lecture Tasks
• Chapter 6 Employing Tap Methods to Explore Listeners' Cognitive Processes
• Chapter 7 Designing Recalling Tasks to Explore Listeners' Mental Representations of Two Mini-lecture
• Chapter 8 Linking Task Demands, Cognitive Processes and Language Competence
• Chapter 9 Conclusion and Recommendations.