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Testing Reading

Testing the comprehension of reading can be confusing if it is not clear what is being tested. When testing reading, it may involve speaking and listening skills like intonation if the test involves reading aloud. There are several techniques that can be used to test reading comprehension without interfering with the reading process itself, such as multiple choice questions, short answer questions, gap filling, and matching texts to headings or summaries. It is important to define comprehension as the ability to understand and find meaning from what is read.

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Testing Reading

Testing the comprehension of reading can be confusing if it is not clear what is being tested. When testing reading, it may involve speaking and listening skills like intonation if the test involves reading aloud. There are several techniques that can be used to test reading comprehension without interfering with the reading process itself, such as multiple choice questions, short answer questions, gap filling, and matching texts to headings or summaries. It is important to define comprehension as the ability to understand and find meaning from what is read.

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Testing Reading

Reading
Reading is an art to comprehend the writers’
aim to be connected to the readers’ conceptualization.
The art refers to an aesthetics and reliability to what is
being read. The art refers to as finding out a buried
treasures from a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph and
discourse. Conceptualization refers to a prior
knowledge of the reader that is being in reader’s mind
used as a flexible filter in doing reading.
Testing

Testing is finding out how well something


works. In terms of human beings, testing tells what
level of knowledge or skill has been acquired.

Testing is used as key checkpoints in the overall


process to determine whether objectives are being met.
A test is a measuring device for assessing the
achievement of the objectives in a training system
which is a set of questions for which there is an
accepted set of correct answers.
Testing reading seems to be confusing since no
understanding what items are to be tested.
Testing refers to the way of questions and/or
statement to find out the feedback or response and
answer to be assessed and evaluated.
If we deal with testing of reading then we may
involve speaking and listening because when someone
is tested in reading such as reading aloud then s/he
seems to speak and listen to some items that will be
tested such as the intonation, stress, sounds, applying
phonics, etc.
The basic problem is that receptive skills
exercises such as reading and listening do not
necessarily manifest itself directly in the overt
behavior because when people write and speak, we can
see and hear but when people read and listen, we often
have nothing to observe. –Hughes 2003
When tester is preparing the assessment, s/he
may go through some of the considerations such as
ensuring the tester selects an appropriate text, making
sure that the language used in the text is suitably
pitched to his/her students’ proficiency and
scrutinizing the text to ensure that the information in
each paragraph is tested. –Mohammad 1999
Hughes (2003) recommended that the
techniques used should interfere as little as possible
with the reading itself, and that they should not add a
significantly difficult task on top of reading.
The common techniques can be multiple
choice, short answer, gap filling, information transfer,
matching the two parts of split sentences, the
completion of; sentences, summaries, diagrams, table,
flow charts, notes; and matching paragraph headings.
It is better to define comprehension in terms of
reading that it refers to be able find meaning of what
is read or the ability to understand what is being read.

Comprehension is a constructive process in


which students create meaning based on their
background knowledge. –Gunning (2010)
 Reading decoding – This is the basic reading ability. It
is the ability to decipher the sounds represented by
each letter or combination of letters in a word.
 Reading fluency – It refers to accurate and automatic
decoding of the words in the text, along with expressive
interpretation of the text, to achieve optimal
comprehension.
Fluency is defined as the combination of speed of
reading and the ability to read with expression.
(Wagaman, 2013)
 Reading speed – This test is almost the same as testing
reading fluency but the speed in time is prominent.
Thank you for
listening! <3

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