Reading Proficiency Assessment and the ILR/ ACTFL Text Typology: A Reevaluation  

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EDWARDS, ALISON L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 80 no. 3 (Sep. 1996), page 350-361.
Fulltext: Vol 80 no 3 pp.350-361.pdf (377.9KB)

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Two previous investigations into the validity of the Interaggency Language Roundtable (ILR)/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) text typology concluded that the model did not accurately predict test performance for foreign language (FL) readers. However, these studies suffered from serious flaws in design and implementation that may have led to erroneous conclusions. The present study considered the validity of the pagmatic approach to text dificulty that was put forward by Child in 1987 - the text typology underlying the ILR/ACTFL proficiency guidelines. The following quesition guided this research: Does the child discourse-type hierarchy predict text difficulty for L2 readers? Test data were collected from 62 U.S. Goverment employees having some previously demonstrated French proficiency. Nine authentic French texts and a combination of testing methods were employed. The results suggested that the Child text hierarchy may indeed provide a sound basis for the development of FL reading tests when it is applied by trained rates and when such tests include an adeguate sample of passages at each level to be tested.

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