The aim of this paper is to advocate the activities of listening comprehension in English in class and how to make test items by utilizing textbooks presently used in middle and high schools. All these activities should come from the teacher's positiv...
The aim of this paper is to advocate the activities of listening comprehension in English in class and how to make test items by utilizing textbooks presently used in middle and high schools. All these activities should come from the teacher's positive attitude about the importance of using spoken English in class. Most of all, teachers should do away with scruples about non-native speakers speaking in English in class.
In making tests on aural on aural comprehension, pictures, true-false, multiple-choices, dictations, directions requiring action response, questions and answers, games, and lots of other formats can be used. However, the essence of the activities is sound discrimination, understanding the meaning of a sentence, simplex or complex, understanding the meaning of a paragraph and a dialogue. All these skills require memory retention to some extent. Dictation is highly rated as an integrative test and can easily be used in class.
Middle and high school textbooks are full of the materials with which teachers could make test items of aural comprehension. Examples are shown to trigger teachers' ingenuity for future test making.