Assessment of Listening

Abstract

Listening is important for in‐person communication with estimates that it accounts for more than 45% of the time spent communicating (Feyten, 1991). Listening continues to become more important in virtual environments with the increase of communication through such technologies as video broadcasting and Skype. It follows that teaching and assessing the listening skill of second language learners is essential. Unfortunately, the assessment of second language listening comprehension has attracted little research attention (Buck, 2001), and as a result, understanding of how to best assess it is limited.

Muai Thai and the embodiment of fighting forms in a rural, northeast Thai household

“…While these economic factors were evident, I was also interested in the social and cultural storehouses of muai Thai capital. For example, among northeastern Thais, economic constraints were often overridden by moral Buddhist social imperatives (Keyes 1983), which were especially influential in designating the methods through which men would achieve social merit (Ockey 1999(Ockey : 1035. As distinct as Isan's politicaleconomic situation is, so is its cultural landscape.…”