Language Testing : Types of Reading

TYPES OF READING

1.      Perceptive Reading

Definition       : Reading that focus on basic aspect of reading, such as alphabetic symbols, capitalized and lowercase letters, words, and grapheme-phoneme correspondence

Example         : Reading Aloud, Written Response, Multiple-choice, Picture-Cued Items

Not an Example         : Multiple-choice (for Form-Focused Criteria), Matching Tasks, Editing Task, Picture-cued tasks, Filling Tasks, Cloze Task, Impromptu Reading plus Comprehension Questions, Editing ( longer text), Scanning, Ordering Task, Information Transfer, Skimming, Summarizing and Responding, Note-Taking and Outlining

Distinctive Feature: Basic aspect of reading

2.      Selective Reading

Definition       : Reading that focus on formal aspect of language, such as lexical, grammatical, and few discourse feature)

Example         : Multiple-choice (for Form-Focused Criteria), Matching Tasks, Editing Task, Picture-cued tasks, Filling Tasks

Not an Example         : Reading Aloud, Written Response, Multiple-choice, Picture-Cued Items, Cloze Task, Impromptu Reading plus Comprehension Questions, Editing (longer text), Scanning, Ordering Task, Information Transfer, Skimming, Summarizing and Responding, Note-Taking and Outlining

Distinctive Feature: Formal aspect of Language

3.      Interactive Reading

Definition       : Reading on combination of form-focused and meaning-focused but with more emphasis on meaning

Example         : Cloze Task, Impromptu Reading plus Comprehension Questions, Editing ( longer text), Scanning, Ordering Task, Information Transfer

Not an Example         : Reading Aloud, Written Response, Multiple-choice, Picture-Cued Items, Multiple-choice (for Form-Focused Criteria), Matching Tasks, Editing Task, Picture-cued tasks, Filling Tasks, Skimming, Summarizing and Responding, Note-Taking and Outlining

Distinctive Feature: More emphasis on meaning

4.      Extensive Reading

Definition       :  an approach to language learning, including foreign language learning, by the means of a large amount of reading.

Example         : Skimming, Summarizing and Responding, Note-Taking and Outlining

Not an Example         : Cloze Task, Impromptu Reading plus Comprehension Questions, Editing ( longer text), Scanning, Ordering Task, Information Transfer, Reading Aloud, Written Response, Multiple-choice, Picture-Cued Items, Multiple-choice (for Form-Focused Criteria), Matching Tasks, Editing Task, Picture-cued tasks, Filling Tasks

Distinctive Feature: Longer Text