Yes, it's "torture."
What name would you give to an exercise in a listening test in which the candidate has to reconstruct the passage from notes taken while it is played at a normal speed?
Someone was asking me, and my mind seems to have gone blank on this one.
Yes, it's "torture."
Yes... is there perhaps a better way of selling it to students? :)
shorthand dictation
dialog/passage/story reconstruction
reconstructing the situation
retelling in your own words
a better view than the original
a personal point of view
checking understanding
shorthand notes
the attentive listener
attentive rewriting
rewriting in your own words
a personal rewriting
checking listening comprehension
...
PS Not a native speaker, please comment on the less appropriate ones.
Passage reconstruction?
Yes, they are good as well.
By 'passage' I tried to mean:
"- An occurrence or event: “Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control” (Helen Kitchen).
- A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare."
from passage: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
or
"a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style"
from passage - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Doesn't it apply here?
Yes, I just thought for a moment I had added a new one.
Thanks for all these suggestions.
I was thinking of something like "reconstruction from notes". But that doesn't make it clear that the original input is aural.
I also like Ymnisky's "shorthand dictation". The trouble is that shorthand to many people means something different.