作者：罗萍
　　【Abstract】Listening course is an elementary course for all the English majors. How to improve students’ listening comprehension ability and how to evaluate their performances and improvements are very important for all the listening teachers. This article is going to have a brief analysis on the assessing methods for English listening course.
　　【Key words】Assessing Methods； English listening； students-centre
　　【作者簡介】罗萍（1980-），女，汉族，北流人，广西科技大学外国语学院，讲师，硕士研究生，研究方向：英语教学法。
　　1. Introduction
　　Among the four basic skills （listening， speaking， reading and writing） in English study， listening ranks the first. Listening is an essential part in CET and TEM test. As a teacher teaching English listening comprehension course， I have tried many assessing methods in my course by using what I have learned in the assessment and evaluation module in WIT （Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland）.
　　2. Description of the assessment process
　　2.1 Context
　　Besides the text book teaching， I used the reality TV， which was the show follow and film ordinary people in an artificial situation， in my class to practice students’ listening， reading， speaking and writing skills. The reality TV I chose was Amazing Race from the United States.
　　2.2 Process
　　The assessment could be divided into two parts as follow： Summative Examination
　　A summative examination is an examination that will assess the degree to which pre-set learning outcomes of the course or module have been achieved by the examination candidate. （Handout of Assessment & Evaluation module of WIT）
　　Paper examination
　　This was the final exam required by the school. The exam was the traditional objective assessment which included multiple choice questions， True/false， Dictation.
　　Role play in pairs
　　After viewing the whole season of Amazing Race， asked the students to prepare a role play to talk about their ideas on the race，， the teams in the race， and then play the role play in front of the tutor who would give them a mark individually according to the context， the pronunciation， the intonation and the fluency. This could find out the students’ understanding of the program.
　　Listening and imitation
　　Let the students choose one of the 11 teams in the Amazing Race， asked them to imitate a dialogue between the team members. The tape would be played five times， and then the students had to imitate in front of the tutor. And the tutor would mark according to the students’ accuracy of the dictation， the pronunciation， the intonation and fluency. This could test the students’ listening ability as well as the speaking ability.