ASSESSING READING

ASSESSING READING

1. In foreign language learning reading is likewise a skill that teacher simply expect learners to acquire basic beginning-level textbooks in a foreign language

2. TYPES (GENRES) OF READING

   • Academic reading
   • Job-related reading
   • Personal reading

3. MICROSKILLS, MACROSKILLS,AND STRATEGIES FOR READING

   • Microskills
     • Discriminate among the distinctive graphemes and orthographic patter of English
   • Macroskills
     • Recognize the rhetorical form of written discourse and their significance for interpretation

4. TYPES OF READING

   • Perceptive
     • it involve attending to the components of larger stretches of discourses: letters, words, punctuation and other graphemic symbols
   • Selective
     • it's one reading recognition of lexical, grammatical or discourse features of language
   • Interactive
     • interactive reading types are stretches of language of several paragraphs to one page or more
   • Extensive
     • This applies to texts of more than a page including professional articles, essays, technical reports

5. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: PERCEPTIVE READING

   • Reading Alound
   • Written Response
   • Multiple choice
   • Picture-Cued Items

6. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: SELECTIVE READING

   • Multiple Choice
   • Matching tasks
   • Editing Tasks
   • Picture-Cued Tasks
   • Gap-Filling Tasks

7. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: INTERACTIVE READING

   • Close Tasks
     • A sentences with a word left out should have enough context that a reader can close that gap with a calculated guess, using linguistic expectancies

8. IMPROMPTU READING PLUS COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

   • Short.Answer Tasks
   • Editing (Longer Texts)
   • Scanning
   • Ordering Tasks