Reference:
Memarzadeh, Maryam and Mohammad Shariati. 2015. Video Clips Used as an Assessment Tool in Listening Placement Tests. International Journal of English Language Teaching, December, Vol.3, No.8, (p.56-70).
Review:
The researcher aims to capture the possible effects of using videos in assessing listening skill of EFL learners in placement tests. video clips can be utilized as an ingenious and useful device for facilitating standard placement tests, particularly in the view of the fact that while the most of current placement tests fail to pay adequate attention to the importance of EFL learners’ listening skill. To carry out the study, 100 elementary, intermediate and advanced language learners who had registered for fall English classes were singled out by an OPT and were randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental group received oxford placement test, and a control group received video placement test, each group containing 50 subjects. All the subjects were assessed by a multiple choice test based on video activity books named ‘Four Corners and English Result’. The result concluded that video clips could be considered as an accurate and appropriate tool in placement tests, in the current research. The obtained results from the present study indicated that the correlation between the scores of the learners in the experimental group on the video placement test and their scores on the main interview was strong and significant, it can be said that the video placement test had more accuracy in assessing the participants’ listening skill, compared to the Oxford placement test.
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