The Effects of Proficiency Level and Passage Content on Reading Skills Assessment'  

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Mecartty, Frances H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 31 no. 4 (1998), page 517-534.
Fulltext: 31_04_Mecartty.pdf (1.16MB)

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This study is designed to investigate the use of reading skills by intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish and to determine whether performance on these skills is uniform across learners and across reading texts, and whether there is a gradation of skills From least complex to most complex. Subjects read two authentic unabridged passages in Spanish and were asked to answer questions based on the skills isolated for the study. These skills are: a) locating details which include the subskills recognition and paraphrase; b) simple inferential skills which include understanding words in context and recognizing cause and effect; c) complex inferential skills which include recognizing main ideas and drawing conclusions. The results of the study showed a) a significant three-way interaction of level, passage and skill; b) a significant interaction of passage and skill; c) a significant interaction of level and skill; and d) a significant main effect of skill. The findings of the study lend support to a hierarchy ofskills. However, it is argued that reading comprehension cannot be viewed in terms ofa discrete set of skills when the nature of reading is so complex.

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