Assessing Reading

Klappentext This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the assessment of reading in a foreign or second language. Zusammenfassung Assessing Reading offers a comprehensive treatment of the assessment of reading in a foreign or second language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Nature of Reading; 2. Variables that affect the nature of reading; 3. Research into the assessment of reading; 4. The reader: defining the construct of reading ability; 5. A framework for test design; 6.Tests in the real world: test purposes; 7. Techniques for testing reading; 8. The development of reading ability; The way forward. Assessing the interaction between reader and text: processes and strategies.

Product details

• Authors: J Charles Alderson, J. Charles Alderson, Alderson J. Charles
• Assisted by: Lyle F. Bachman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780521599993
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59999-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 26 mm
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools