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Peer reviewedReves, Thea; Levine, Adina – System, 1992
The aim of the present study was to develop a model for a criterion-referenced mastery reading comprehension test for university English-as-a-foreign-language courses. The research confirmed the hypothesized relationship between learners' needs, reading tasks, course content and their cumulative contribution to the formulation of the criteria of a…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Models
Peer reviewedBensoussan, Marsha – System, 1982
Discusses the hypothesis that the difficulty of a multiple-choice comprehension test does not just depend on the difficulty of the text, but rather on the text and the questions. Presents ways to evaluate the difficulty of the text, the questions on it, and the test as a whole. (EKN)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedChung, Jenny S. L. – System, 2000
Describes an investigation of the effects of logical connectives and paragraph heads on reading comprehension among 577 Hong Kong secondary students learning English as a Second Language. An English reading comprehension test was used to allocate subjects into one of the three performance groups: High, medium, and low. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Conjunctions, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedJoycey, E. – System, 1987
Among techniques which can be used by foreign language teachers to help learners use multiple-choice tests (after reading a text) to become better readers are: have students attempt to answer questions before reading the text; rearrange the order of the questions; and have students make up multiple choice questions. (CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Teachers, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedIlyin, Donna; And Others – System, 1987
Analysis of the performance of 257 adult English-as-a-second-language students on six language tests (multiple choice, cloze, listening, reading, structure) indicated that age was a significant factor on listening and structure tests and high school graduation affected performance on all tests but one listening test. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedShoham, Miriam; And Others – System, 1987
Investigation of the relevance of student background discipline (185 college students studying science and technology, biology, and humanities and social science) on tests of reading comprehension in English as a foreign language found that content area passages do affect student performance on reading comprehension tests but not as greatly as…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Correlation
Peer reviewedFulcher, G. – System, 1998
Considers the validity of Widdowson's discourse model of communicative competence and performance as the basis for developing tests of reading. Describes basic structure of the model and attempts to add to original description in such a way that is possible to design an operational test of the model components. The purpose of the model validation…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Tests
