Self-Assessed Online Listening Tests (SAOLT): Learn and Practise Listening Skills Independently

Self-Assessed Online Listening Tests or SAOLT is an award-winning Open Educational Resource (OER) formulated based on RACQAIL attributes. SAOLT, which is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, offers ESL learners to practise their listening skills in a test format. There are three types of listening test videos: news items, talk, and conversation. Each type of listening test video has two different sets of questions labelled as a and b. The number of questions for each type of listening test video is different: news items (5 questions), talk (8 questions), and conversation (7 questions). Each question has 3 options: A, B, and C. The listening tips and videos are as follows.

Listening Tips Solutions

If you are a learner, you can put your answers in the Comments section below the video on the YouTube channel; you can access the YouTube channel by clicking the video title at the top left corner of the video. Later, you can check your answers through the Reply of the Comments. If you are an instructor, feel free to use these videos in your listening lessons. You may click HERE to access the suggested answer keys for all the tests and click HERE to find the listening video playlist. Please give a like to the video if you find it beneficial. Below are the guidelines before attempting each test:

1. View the video in full-screen mode in order to read the questions easily.

2. When you listen for the first time, do not listen and answer at the same time.

3. The first round when you listen is to understand the whole idea, which you may determine initially the possible answers.

4. You should begin to answer when you listen for the second time to ensure you do not miss any information needed for answering the other questions.

5. The second round of listening is to confirm the accuracy of the answers you have determined earlier.

6. Please do not type your answers in brief like A,B,C,D,A; you should type like 1.A, 2.B, 3.C, 4.D & 5.A for instance.

News Items

Set 1a

Set 1b

Set 2a

Set 2b

Talk

Set 1a

Set 1b

Set 2a

Set 2b

Conversation

Set 1a

Set 1b

Set 2a

Set 2b

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