Listening Assessment

1. Listeners

1.1. Listeners Should:

1.1.1. 1.Recognise a grammar pattern 2. Fit a word to the words surrounding it

1.2. Meaning Construction

1.2.1. Cognitive Processing

1.2.1.1. 1. Input decoding 2. Lexical search 3. Syntactic parsing 4. Meaning construction 5. Discourse construction

2. Listening Test

2.1. Easy or Difficult

2.1.1. Recording Content

2.1.1.1. 1. Linguistic complexity 2. Content knowledge 3. Nature of information

2.1.2. Speakers

2.1.2.1. Speech rate

2.1.2.2. Variety of accents