Perceptive - literacy tasks

-Reading Aloud

-Written Response

-Multiple Choice – minimal pair distinction and grapheme recognition task

-Picture-cued items – word identification, true or false, matching word

Selective – testing vocabulary and grammar (lexical grammatical)

-Multiple Choice (for Form-focused criteria)

- contextualized, cloze vocabulary/grammar task

-Matching Tasks (vocabulary)

-Editing Tasks (grammatical and rhetorical)

-Picture-cued tasks (sentence read)

-Gap-Filling Tasks (reading and writing tasks)

Interactive – form-focused and meaning-focused objectives, more emphasis on meaning

-Cloze Tasks – C-test, cloze elide – most researched procedure for assessing reading

-Impromptu reading plus comprehension question – read a passage and answer some question
technique the oldest and the most common.

-Short-answer tasks – popular alternative to multiple choice questions

-Editing (longer texts) 200-300 words

-Scanning – find relevant info

-Ordering tasks – story strip technique

-Information Transfer: Reading Charts, maps

Extensive – top-down

-Skimming Tasks – rapid coverage of reading matter to determine gist

-Summarizing and Responding (common for extensive)

-Note-Taking and Outlining