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Author |
: Ardeshir Geranpayeh |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2013-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107602632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107602637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Examining Listening by : Ardeshir Geranpayeh
This volume examines the nature of second language listening proficiency and how it can be assessed. The book highlights the need for test developers to provide a clear explication of the ability constructs which underpin the tests they offer in the public domain. This is increasingly necessary if claims about the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. It operationalises a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components, examining and then analysing Cambridge ESOL listening tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker; Cognitive Validity; Context Validity; Scoring Validity; Criterion-related Validity; and Consequential Validity.
Author |
: Haiping Wang |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2017-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811062025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811062021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks by : Haiping Wang
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 discusses in depth the nature of lecture comprehension and introduces the approaches to assessing it. It also presents teachers’ and students’ perceptions of listen-to-summarize task demands and their respective implications. By observing interactions between test-takers’ cognitive processes and the task itself, the book explores the effectiveness of these tasks. It also examines the discrepancy in cognitive processes between different language competence levels in detail, shedding light upon current research on lecture comprehension assessment and offering insights into listening comprehension instruction.
Author |
: Ruth Herbert |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317138280 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317138287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Music Listening by : Ruth Herbert
In what ways does listening to music shape everyday perception? Is music particularly effective in promoting shifts in consciousness? Is there any difference perceptually between contemplating one's surroundings and experiencing a work of art? Everyday Music Listening is the first book to focus in depth on the detailed nature of music listening episodes as lived mental experiences. Ruth Herbert uses new empirical data to explore the psychological processes involved in everyday music listening scenarios, charting interactions between music, perceiver and environment in a diverse range of real-world contexts. Findings are integrated with insights from a broad range of literature, including consciousness studies and research into altered states of consciousness, as well as ideas from ethology and evolutionary psychology, suggesting that a psychobiological capacity for trancing is linked to the origins of making and receiving of art. The term 'trance' is not generally associated with music listening outside ethnomusicological studies of strong experiences, yet 'hypnotic-like' involvements in daily life have long been recognized by hypnotherapy researchers. The author argues that multiply distributed attention - prevalent in much contemporary listening- does not necessarily indicate superficial engagement. Music emerges as a particularly effective mediator of experience. Absorption and dissociation, as manifestations of trancing, are self-regulatory processes, often operating at the level of unconscious awareness, that support individuals' perceptions of psychological health. This fascinating study brings together research and theory from a wide range of fields to provide a new framework for understanding the phenomenology of music listening in a way that will appeal to both specialist academic audiences and a broad general readership.
Author |
: Dina Tsagari |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
Release |
: 2016-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501500862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501500864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Second Language Assessment by : Dina Tsagari
Second language assessment is ubiquitous. It has found its way from education into questions about access to professions and migration. This volume focuses on the main debates and research advances in second language assessment in the last fifty years or so, showing the influence of linguistics, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and psychometrics. There are four parts which, when taken together, address the principles and practices of second language assessment while considering its impact on society. Read separately, each part addresses a different aspect of the field. Part I deals with the conceptual foundations of second language assessment with chapters on the purposes of assessment, and standards and frameworks, as well as matters of scoring, quality assurance, and test validation. Part II addresses the theory and practice of assessing different second language skills including aspects like intercultural competence and fluency. Part III examines the challenges and opportunities of second language assessment in a range of contexts. In addition to chapters on second language assessment on a national scale, there are chapters on learning-oriented assessment, as well as the uses of second language assessment in the workplace and for migration. Part IV examines a selection of important issues in the field that deserve attention. These include the alignment of language examinations to external frameworks, the increasing use of technology to both deliver and score second language tests, the responsibilities associated with assessing test takers with special needs, the concept of 'voice' in second language assessment, and assessment literacy for teachers and other test and score users.
Author |
: Lisbeth Lipari |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2015-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271076713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271076712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening, Thinking, Being by : Lisbeth Lipari
Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of being with others and the world. Drawing upon insights from phenomenology, linguistics, philosophy of communication, and ethics, Listening, Thinking, Being is both an invitation and an intervention meant to turn much of what readers know, or think they know, about language, communication, and listening inside out. It is not about how to be a good listener or the numerous pitfalls that stem from the failure to listen. Rather, the purpose of the book is, first, to make readers aware of the value and importance of listening as a fundamental human ability inextricably connected with language and thought; second, to alert readers to the complexity of listening from personal, cultural, and philosophical perspectives; and third, to offer readers a way to think of listening as a mode of communicative action by which humans create and abide in the world. Lisbeth Lipari brings together historical, literary, intercultural, scientific, musical, and philosophical perspectives, as well as a range of her own personal experiences, to produce this highly readable analysis of how “the human experience of being as an ethical relation with others . . . is enacted by means of listening.”
Author |
: Jennifer N. Casey |
Publisher |
: Nova Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1604562331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781604562330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Educational Curricula by : Jennifer N. Casey
In formal education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults. Crucial to the curriculum is the definition of the course objectives that usually are expressed as learning outcomes and normally include the program's assessment strategy. These outcomes and assessments are grouped as units (or modules), and, therefore, the curriculum comprises a collection of such units, each, in turn, comprising a specialised, specific part of the curriculum. So, a typical curriculum includes communications, numeracy, information technology, and social skills units, with specific, specialised teaching of each. This book presents research on educational curricula from around the world.
Author |
: Harrison Boyd Summers |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 1944 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00038487F |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7F Downloads) |
Synopsis Study of Radio Listening Habits in the State of Iowa by : Harrison Boyd Summers
Author |
: Chuanren Ke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 662 |
Release |
: 2018-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317367901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317367901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition by : Chuanren Ke
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind. The handbook contains twenty contributions from leading experts in the field of Chinese SLA, covering a wide range of topics such as social contexts, linguistic perspectives, skill learning, individual differences and learning settings and testing. Each chapter covers historical perspectives, core issues and key findings, research approaches, pedagogical implications, future research direction and additional references. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is an essential reference for Chinese language teachers and researchers in Chinese applied linguistics and second language acquisition.
Author |
: Frank Shepherd Moore |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89097325609 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Study of Large Farmers' Radio Listening Habits in Southern Wisconsin by : Frank Shepherd Moore
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Release |
: 2010-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3125334977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783125334977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
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