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Finnish Matriculation Examination computer-based : the impact of pictures and video in assessing listening comprehension

2016

Poster at 33rd Summer School and Conference of Applied Language Studies. CoDesigns: Envisioning Multi-sited Language Education Policies. Jyväskylä, Finland, June 20-22, 2016. This research is about using visual support like videos and pictures in testing foreign language listening comprehension. The study limits to the foreign language testing in the Finnish Matriculation Examination, which is a final examination of the upper secondary school. There is a need for this research because the way people live and communicate has totally changed in this decade. The Finnish Matriculation Examination is becoming computer-based which opens new possibilities and challenges for language testing. Also …