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Assessing Reading offers a comprehensive treatment of the assessment of reading in a foreign or second language.

Table of Contents
1. The Nature of Reading; 2. Variables that affect the nature of reading; 3. Research into the assessment of reading; 4. The reader: defining the construct of reading ability; 5. A framework for test design; 6.Tests in the real world: test purposes; 7. Techniques for testing reading; 8. The development of reading ability; The way forward. Assessing the interaction between reader and text: processes and strategies.

Assessing Reading Cambridge Language Assessment

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 2/24/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521599993, 978-0521599993
      ISBN10: 0521599997
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Assessing Reading offers a comprehensive treatment of the assessment of reading in a foreign or second language.

      Table of Contents
      1. The Nature of Reading; 2. Variables that affect the nature of reading; 3. Research into the assessment of reading; 4. The reader: defining the construct of reading ability; 5. A framework for test design; 6.Tests in the real world: test purposes; 7. Techniques for testing reading; 8. The development of reading ability; The way forward. Assessing the interaction between reader and text: processes and strategies.

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