Evaluating listening skills
di E. Darling, British Council
Aims
This learning path is based on the idea that
"Listening is an active skill that includes the use of many sub-skills such as predicting content, inferring meaning from content, listening for gist, and listening for specific information. Children are able to use the basic sub-skills in their own language. Some of these sub-skills, such as inferring meaning and predicting content, should also be practised in the foreign language class. Training children to do this gives them a head start in their learning career. Assessment should, therefore, check progress in a variety of listening sub-skills."
Ioannou-Georgiou and Pavlou (2003)