An empirical investigation of the componentiality of L2 reading in English for academic purposes

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Studies in Language Testing 12
An empirical investigation of the componentiality of L2 Reading in English for academic purposes
The focus on careful reading in the theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored expeditious reading behaviours such as skimming, search reading and scanning in the teaching and testing of reading. We have theories of careful reading but very Uttle on how readers process texts quickly and selectively, i.e., expeditiously, to extract important information in line with intended purpose(s).
Furthermore, because of a focus on the local level e.g. word recognition or syntactic parsing, only limited attention has been paid to careful reading at the global level, i.e., comprehension of the main ideas in a text or of the discourse topic; the macropropositional as against the micropropositional level of text. In addition to careful reading at the local level, we felt it was important to explore a further four kinds of reading: Search reading,... Tovább

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Studies in Language Testing 12
An empirical investigation of the componentiality of L2 Reading in English for academic purposes
The focus on careful reading in the theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored expeditious reading behaviours such as skimming, search reading and scanning in the teaching and testing of reading. We have theories of careful reading but very Uttle on how readers process texts quickly and selectively, i.e., expeditiously, to extract important information in line with intended purpose(s).
Furthermore, because of a focus on the local level e.g. word recognition or syntactic parsing, only limited attention has been paid to careful reading at the global level, i.e., comprehension of the main ideas in a text or of the discourse topic; the macropropositional as against the micropropositional level of text. In addition to careful reading at the local level, we felt it was important to explore a further four kinds of reading: Search reading, Skimming, Scanning, Careful Reading (at the global level).
The development of the Advanced EngUsh Reading Test (AERT) for University students in the People's Republic of China under the auspices of the National CoUege English Test Committee was the vehicle for investigating the nature of and the relationships between these different components of reading at the macro level.
This volume reports on the methodological procedures that led to the development of thus important test and discusses the results of the empirical investigations that were carried out to establish its validity both a priori and a posteriori. As such it offers a blueprint for those wishing to research in the area as well as generating data on these different reading styles of interest to both testers and teachers of reading in an additional language as well as researchers. Vissza