TEST TASKS FOR

READING
Presented by Lesley Nayeli Chávez Velázquez
March 2020
“Test task specifications need to be
written separately for each section, and
for each type of question.”
Carr (2011)
Topics

1. Specifications for Reading Comprehension Questions

2. Specifications For Reading Comprehension Passages
3. Specifications For Reading Comprehension Passages
4. Examples
5. Conclusions
1. Specifications For
Reading
Comprehension
Questions.

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 According to Carr (2011) these are the
specifications for reading comprehension
questions.
➢ Using L1 questions ➢ Decide if linguistic
to assess L2 accuracy should be
comprehension. considered when
scoring.
(Carr, 2011)

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2. Specifications For
Reading
Comprehension
Passages

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages, according to Carr (2011):

➢ Length ➢ Topic

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages. (Carr, 2011)

➢ Vocabulary ➢ Synta
x

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages. (Carr, 2011)

➢ Readability. ➢ Genr
e

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages. (Carr, 2011)

➢ Rhetorical mode.

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3. Specifications For
Reading
Comprehension
Passages

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages. (Carr, 2011)
➢ Selecting appropriate reading passages.

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 Specifications for reading comprehension
passages. (Carr, 2011)

➢ The passage needs to be the basis for the

tasks that will be based upon it.

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4. Examples of test
tasks for reading

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 Discussion / Information transfer

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 True/ False Questions

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 Conclusions

When we evaluate a specific skill of our

students, we must choose the correct
activity or task to do it, that is why knowing
the different tasks we can use to evaluate
our students is so important.
 Thanks for your attention!

Presented by Lesley Nayeli Chávez Velázquez

E-mail: lesley.chavez@uabc.edu.mx

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 References

Carr, N. T. (2011). Designing and analyzing language

tests. Estados Unidos: Oxford University Press.

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