LANGUAGE TESTING AND

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ASSESSMENT

TESTING READING
Group 4:
1. Vương Thị Kiều Nga
2. Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến
3. Trần Thị Hậu
4. Đỗ Phương Thảo
5. Trịnh Thị Tuyến
 Contents

1 Which skills the reader perform? - Operations

Which texts candidates are expected to be

2
able to deal with? – Parameters

3 Speed

4 Criterial level of performance

 1. Operations

Operations based on different purposes:

Expeditious reading Careful reading

• Skimming • Identify
• Search reading • Interpret
• Scanning • Distinguish
• Recognise
• Outline
 Expeditious reading operations

Skimming
The candidate can:
Obtain main ideas and discourse topic
quickly and efficiently
Establish quickly the structure of a text
Decide the relevance of a text ( or part of
a text) to their needs.
 Expeditious reading operations

Search reading
The candidate can quickly find information on a
predetermined topic.
Scanning
The candidate can quickly find:
Specific words or phrases
Figures,percentages
Specific items in a index
Specific names in a bibliography or a set of
references
 Careful reading operations

Identify pronominal reference

Identify discourse markers
Interpret complex sentences
Interpret topic sentences
Outline logical organisation of a text
Outline the development of an argument
Distinguish general statements from
examples
Identify explicitly stated main ideas
Identify implicitly stated main ideas
 Careful reading operations

Recognize writer’s intention

Recognize the attitudes and emotions of
the writer
Identify addressee or audience for a text
Identify what kind of text is involved
Distinguish fact from opinion
Distinguish hypothesis from fact
Distinguish fact from rumour or hearsay
 Make inferences:

Infer the meaning of an unknown word

from context
Make propositional informational
inferences, answering questions beginning
with who,when, what
Make propositional explanatory inferences
concerned with motivation, cause,
consequence and enablement, answering
questions beginning with why, how
Make pragmatic inferences
 2. Which texts candidates are expected to be
able to deal with?

Parameters:

• Text types
• Text forms
• Graphic features
• Topics
• Style
2. Which texts candidates are expected to be
able to deal with?

Parameters:

• Intended readership
• Length
• Readability
• Range of vocabulary
We want the texts included in a
• Range of grammar test to be representative of the texts
• Authenticity candidates should be able to read
successfully. Content validity
and backwash.
3. Speed

 Reading speed may be expressed in words per

minute.

 Different speed will be expected for careful and

expeditious reading.

 The expected speed of reading will combine with

the number and difficulty of items to determine the
amount of time needed for the test, or part of it.
4. Criterial level of performance

Traditional passmarks expressed in percentages: no

direct interpretation

To use the test tasks themselves to define

the level

When can we compare performance on the test using

scales: ACTFL or ILR?
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