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Video Listening Tests: What Are They Measuring?
Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008This article examines how eight advanced ESL learners attend to and utilize the nonverbal information found in a video text. Using verbal report methodology in which test-takers verbalized aloud their thought processes while taking a video listening test, the results suggested that the test-takers varied in how they attended to and utilized the ...
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Test-takers' interaction with an L2 video listening test
System, 2010Abstract Video technology is commonly used in L2 classrooms, but it is rarely used in assessing L2 listening, and there is little research investigating how L2 listeners process video texts (spoken texts that include the visual channel). The purpose of this study is to examine how L2 test-takers interact with a video listening test: the rate L2 ...
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Construct implications of including still image or video in computer-based listening tests
Language Testing, 2007Over the past decade, listening comprehension tests have been converting to computer-based tests that include visual input. However, little research is available to suggest how test takers engage with different types of visuals on such tests. The present study compared a series of still images to video in academic computer-based tests to determine how
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Content-Rich Versus Content-Deficient Video-Based Visuals in L2 Academic Listening Tests
International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018This article compares second language test-takers' performance on an academic listening test in an audio-only mode versus an audio-video mode. A new method of classifying video-based visuals was developed and piloted, which used L2 expert opinions to place the video on a continuum from being content-deficient (not helpful for answering comprehension ...
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The effect of the use of video texts on ESL listening test-taker performance
Language Testing, 2010Video is widely used in the teaching of L2 listening, and SLA researchers have argued that the visual components of spoken texts are useful for the listener in comprehending aural information. Yet video texts are rarely used on tests of L2 listening ability, perhaps in part due to the belief that including the visual channel involves assessing ...
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Language Testing, 2014
The rise in the affordability of quality video production equipment has resulted in increased interest in video-mediated tests of foreign language listening comprehension. Although research on such tests has continued fairly steadily since the early 1980s, studies have relied on analyses of raw scores, despite the growing prevalence of item response ...
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The rise in the affordability of quality video production equipment has resulted in increased interest in video-mediated tests of foreign language listening comprehension. Although research on such tests has continued fairly steadily since the early 1980s, studies have relied on analyses of raw scores, despite the growing prevalence of item response ...
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A comparative study of video-mediated and audio-only listening tests in the Austrian EFL classroom
2016This study compares an audiotape-mediated and a video-mediated listening test in order to determine whether the presence of visual input, which provides access to non-verbal cues, leads to increased listening comprehension performance in Austrian students who are learning English as a foreign language.
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2015
Görsel öğelerin ikinci dilde yapılan dinleme testlerinde kullanılması uzun süredir araştırmacıların dikkatini çekmektedir. Fakat çalışmalarda çoğunlukla ortak bir sonuca ulaşılamamış ve çelişkili sonuçlar ortaya çıkmıştır. Bunun yanında öğrencilerin kişisel farklılıklar ile işitsel ve hem işitsel hem görsel dinleme testlerindeki performansları ...
GÖKTÜRK, Nazlınur, ALTAY, Ayşe
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Görsel öğelerin ikinci dilde yapılan dinleme testlerinde kullanılması uzun süredir araştırmacıların dikkatini çekmektedir. Fakat çalışmalarda çoğunlukla ortak bir sonuca ulaşılamamış ve çelişkili sonuçlar ortaya çıkmıştır. Bunun yanında öğrencilerin kişisel farklılıklar ile işitsel ve hem işitsel hem görsel dinleme testlerindeki performansları ...
GÖKTÜRK, Nazlınur, ALTAY, Ayşe
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