This document discusses reading assessment and the factors that affect the difficulty of reading tests. It addresses how reading comprehension involves multiple components that depend on the format of the material and how understanding is demonstrated. Testing reading skills is complex as the process varies between readers and involves many interacting skills. Assessing reading is challenging as skills are not always clearly measured by tests. The document examines reader introspection methods like thinking aloud and writing down protocols to better understand how individual readers approach test questions.

1. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE ARGEMIRO AMAYA BUELVAS Especialista en ELT C. Magister in Education

2. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter Three REASEARCH INTO THE ASSESSMENT OF READING Alderson, J.C. (2000) Assessing reading. (pp. 85-115). C.U.P.

3. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Chapter Three This chapter will address the question: How do we know what affects the assessment of reading?

4. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Reading comprehensioninvolvedmultiplecomponentsthatwouldappeardependingon: Theformatsusedtopresentthe material toberead Themanner in whichthepersonwasaskedtoindicatetheirunderstanding of the material thatwasread. Pearson and Hamm (2005)

6. Types of Questions

7. Testing Skills

8. Role of Grammar in Reading Tests

9. Role of Vocabulary in Reading Tests

12. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills “Teststhatcoulddiagnosethestate of development of a learner’sskillswouldthusbeveryvaluable. However…theevidencethattheskillswereindeedbeingtested has provedelusive” (p.93). What would be valuable? What has been difficult to be done , so far?

13. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE “It has often been argued that the key thing is not how many skills and strategies (italics added) we can dream up, but how many can be shown to exist on tests” (p.94) Where are reading comprehension skills found on tests? Where should reading strategies be on tests?

14. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills It is said that test-taker introspections shows how highly complex testing skills is and how this process varies from reader to reader. Let’s see how complex and varied the process of testing skills is. Let’s do and exercise.

15. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills You are abouttobepresentedtoyou a multiple-choiceexercisetakenfromchapterseven “Techniques for Testing Reading”. Thisexercise has 4 choices. You are not onlybeaskedtochooseone of thechoices,as a possibleanswer, butalsowillbeaskedtowritedown, onthesamepiece of paper, howyoureachedthatanswer. –Writing Down Protocole-

16. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills Memorizingiseasierwhenthe material tobelearnedis… in a foreignlanguage alreadypartlyknown unfamiliarbuteasy of no specialinterest Alderson et al., 1995:50 cited in Alderson (2000. p.211)

17. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills “Studies using test-taker introspections shows test questions is highly complex, and the process varies from reader to reader. Thus for one person an item might indeed be said to be measuring mainly one skill, but for another it might be measuring a number of interacting skills” (p.97). How many test-taker introspection procedures do you know? Thinking aloud protocol Writing down protocol Students’ self-report diary with regard to the reading experience.

18. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills In order to have an idea of what this reader’s introspection process underlines, in the words of Alderson (2000), he describes it as: “Dynamic, variable, and different for the same reader on the same text at a different time or with a different purpose in reading. It is even more likely, then, that the process will be different for different texts at different times and with different purpose” (p.3).

19. A MODELING OF READING STRATEGIES INTO THE READING PROCESS FROM A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Testing Skills CORE QUESTION WHAT READING STRATEGIES FACILITATE THE PROMOTION OF READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND CRITICAL THINKING WHEN PROCESSING EXPOSITORY TEXTS?

21. To classify learners’ reading strategies to process every reading comprehension level.How do you think I can identify and classify these two private process?

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