What is LAL?
The knowledge, skills and abilities required to design, develop, maintain or evaluate, large-scale standardised and/or classroom based tests
Who needs LAL?
Practitioners-Non-practitioners
Describe the listening process
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Levels of listening
General understanding, specific information, inferring
Listening test formats
Reading aloud, audio recordings, speakers, headphones, video
Response formats for listening
multiple choice, single word, longer response
What is reading?
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Why do we speak?
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Different ways of reading. Provide examples
Read quickly, read vary carefully
Four characteristics of reading tests
Right level of difficulty, Long enough to contain enough specific details, Information should come from the text, not background knowledge, Not culturally biase
Reading tasks
short answers, identify the main idea, write the title, label a chart, re-order, etc
When thinking about speaking, we need to consider:
Audience, Reason, Conditions
Common Speaking Test Formats
Interview, oral presentation, interactive task, group discussion
