Testing Reading Through Summary - Investigating Summary Completion Tasks for Assessing Reading

This volume explores the use of summary tasks as an effective means of assessing reading comprehension ability. It reports on a series of empirical studies that investigated the development and trialling of text-removed summary completion tasks and discusses the correlation of these tasks with results from independent measures to validate text-removed summary completion as a measure of reading comprehension ability.

Riassunto

It reports on a series of empirical studies that investigated the development and trialling of text-removed summary completion tasks and discusses the correlation of these tasks with results from independent measures to validate text-removed summary completion as a measure of reading comprehension ability.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lynda Taylor, Lynda B. Taylor
• Con la collaborazione di: Lynda Taylor (Editore), Taylor Lynda (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107695702
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69570-2
• Pagine: 284
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Studies in Language Testing; Studies in Language Testing
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Altro; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language learning: reading skills, Language teaching theory and methods, Elt: Reading Skills, ELT: teaching theory & methods, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language