Assessing Listening Versión en línea Listening is the receptive skill. Its performance is the invisible, inaudible process of internalizing meaning from the auditory signals being transmitted to the ear and brain. por Selena Simaluisa 1 In the task of listening cloze, what does the test-taker have to do? a The test-taker has to listen to a story , monologue, conversation and simultaneously read the written text, they have to fill in the blanks with the words or phrases that they hear. b The test-taker has to identify an element in a picture, complete a form, or show routes on a map. c The teacher has to ask open-ended questions, true/false, identification, etc. d The listener has to discern from a number of pieces of information which pieces are relevant. 2 What is an example of authentic listening tasks? a No feedback provided to learners. b Interpretative tasks. c Memorization. d Descontextualized test tasks. 3 Select the option that best relates to the statement below. It is a widely researched genre of assessing listening comprehension. The test-taker hears the passage from 50 to 100 words, recited three times. The listeners have to write down about what they have heard. a Sentence repetition b Information transfer c Dictaction d Paraphrase Recognition 4 What is an example of information transfer tasks? a Single-picture-cued verbal multiple-choice b Dialogue and multiple-choice comprehension items. c Open-ended response to a question d Listening cloze