Testing Reading Skills

Reading is a skill that is taken for granted.

• True

• False

The assessment of reading skill ends with the measurement of comprehension.

• True

• False

What are the types (genres) for reading?

• Textbooks, messages and newspapers

• Papers, manuals and medical reports

• Academic, job-related and personal readings

What is the interactive type of reading?

• Includes texts of more than a page long.

• Larger stretches of discourse.

• Readers recognition on lexical, grammatical or discourse features.

• Readers interact with the text.

What is the extensive type of reading?

• Larger stretches of discourse.

• Includes texts of more than a page long.

• Reader interacts with the text.

• Reading recognition on lexical, grammatical or discourse features

What reduces the validity of gap-filling tasks?

• Requires both reading and writing.

• It is a combination of form-focused and meaning-focused objectives.

• Texts are a little longer, from a paragraph.

Arranging a cloze test in a multiple-choice format allows even more rapid scoring.

• True

• False

Writing a summary of a text is one of the most common means of assessing extensive reading.

• True

• False

What kind of assessment corresponds to note-taking and outlining?

• Formal assessment

• Informal assessment