Testing Reading Skill

 #Testing Reading skill

     1. Reading aloud 

     2. Reading comprehension

# What to test in reading aloud?

• Recognition of graphic symbols and production of those symbols,

• Discrimination of sounds,

• Pronunciation of words,

• Pause in reading,

• Reading with correct use of supra-segmental features like pitch, tone, stress, intonation, juncture etc,

• Use of paralinguistic features like emotions, feelings etc,

• Reading word groups,

• Clarity, and

• Reading with an appropriate punctuation marks.

# What to test in reading comprehension?

• Recognize the script of the language,

• Deducing the meaning of unfamiliar items,
  
  

• Understanding explicitly stated information as well as implicitly stated information,

• understanding conceptual meaning,

• understanding the communicative value of sentence,

• understanding relations with in sentence and between the parts of a text,

• Identifying main points in a piece of discourse,

• Distinguishing the main ideas from supporting details,

• Basic reference skills,

• Skimming,

• Guessing meaning of unfamiliar words from the context,

• Reading title and making inference from it,

• Using knowledge of the word, and

• Understand the writer`s intended meaning.

# Techniques/ Activities that can be used for testing reading comprehension.

• Matching items

• True- false items

• Multiple choice items

• Short answer question 

• Gap filling items

• Information transfer