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Assessing Reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

Kyle Perkins
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The fields of reading comprehension per se and second language reading comprehension are vast indeed, and an attempt to survey them will, of necessity, be attenuated in a chapter of this size. As a consequence, I will limit my discussion to six areas: 1) general comments concerning areas of interest in reading research and assessment, 2) the adaptation of a suitable first-language reading comprehension model for second-language assessment, 3) the reliance on a top-down model of reading comprehension, 4) the validity of multiple-choice reading comprehension tests, 5) research on behavioral anchoring, and 6) the testing of reading comprehension in a CAT (Computer Adaptive Testing) context.

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Assessing Language Abilities
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 18 , March 1998 , pp. 208 - 218
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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