The book outlines the major areas of listening research in an accessible manner and provides language teachers with guidelines to design and develop suitable listening tests for their students.
Contents: 1. An overview of listening comprehension; 2. What is unique to listening; 3. Approaches to assessing listening; 4. Defining the construct; 5. Creating tasks; 6. Providing suitable texts; 7. Designing and constructing whole assessments; 8. Illustrative tests of listening comprehension; 9. Summary and future developments
