Category: Listening

NEW BOOK: Reading Between The Lines – The Secret Step-By-Step Guide on How 2 Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying

Nov 5, 2021

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Graeme Smith

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You need to buy Reading Between the Lines – It’s a Secret Step-By-Step Guide on How to Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying
New online ESOL Assessment: Starting Points Listening

Feb 10, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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The NZCER have just released the Starting Points Listening to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool. Here’s the blurb: Starting Points Listening is one of two online, adaptive assessment options designed for learners who are at or below koru/step one of the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. Starting Points Listening assesses a learner’s ability to…
Group Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This post carries on my collection of a few different diagnostic assessment tools for use with learners with literacy and numeracy issues. So far I’ve looked at: A basic, but fairly broad numeracy diagnostic assessment. Creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank to help you do this. A learner observation checklist for…
Learner Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking Skills

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The other day I posted my versions of the some tools to use with learners for numeracy diagnostic assessment. I’ve also written before about creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank. This post continues along the same line, but with a learner observation checklist for listening and speaking skills. This is…