In order to respond, the student must integrate the communication skills of vocabulary and semantics, syntax and morphology, phonology, and thinking. The student must determine what part of the message needs immediate attention, organize and understand the input, and plan appropriate responses. The test, as closely as possible, models the type of listening required in the classroom.
pay careful attention to what they hear.
Because children need the basic skill of listening (receiving, attending to, interpreting, and responding to verbal messages and other cues) in order to succeed in school and in life and because classroom listening is such an integrated process, each subtest on the Listening Comprehension Test 2 requires students to: The tasks reveal students' strengths and weaknesses in integrated language problem solving, reasoning, and comprehension of material presented auditorily. The Listening Comprehension Test 2 assesses listening through natural classroom situations rather than evaluating listening through simple repetition or discrimination subtests.
