Assessing Reading

Assessing Reading

1. Skills

   • Macro Skills
     • Recognize non-implied cultural reference
     • connections between events and causes
     • Infer the text
     • Recognize the rhetorical forms of written discourse
     • Recognize the communicative functions of written texts
     • generalization and exemplification
     • scanning and skimming
   • Micro Skills
     • Recognize grammatical word classes
     • Retain chunks
     • Recognize meaning given in a different way
     • Recognize a core of words
     • Recognize cohesive devices in written discourse
     • Discriminate among the distinctive graphemes and orthographic patterns of English

2. Types of reading

   • Perceptive
     • involve attending to the components of larger stretches discourse
   • Selective
     • stimuli include sentences, brief paragraphs and simple charts and graphs
   • Interactive
     • reader must interact with the text to identify relevant features
   • Extensive
     • it applies to texts of more than a page to tap into a learner’s global understanding of a text

3. the most essential skill for success in all educational contexts

4. Genres of reading

   • Academic Reading
     • general interest articles
     • technical reports
     • reference material
   • Job-related Reading
     • messages
     • financial documents
     • reports
   • Personal Reading
     • newspapers and magazines
     • novels, short stories
     • schedules