TY - GEN

T1 - SOME PROBLEMS OF TEACHING AND TESTING READING IN ADULT EDUCATION: TEACHING READING VS THE BUSINESS OF TESTING

AU - Рохлина, Елена Константиновна

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Why should educators be preoccupied with testing reading skills? What are tests and those who conduct them actually trying to measure? How this can help learners, particularly adult learners? When it comes to reading in adult education, especially reading extensively, educators have to specify what they aim to measure: the quantity of reading done by a student in the target language be measured, or the quality, i.e. comprehension? How can the quantity of reading should be graded then? Testing reading techniques[24] such as the pace and accuracy of pronouncing combinations of letters may be suitable for young learners (or possibly, adult beginners), but it might only serve to demotivate more advanced students. The article claims that teachers should rather provide students with tools for self-evaluation than make testing a central goal in the process of teaching / learning reading. Reading is actually a complex dexterity implying several strategies to understand[25], evaluate, and interpret the author's ideas. This is what the focus of reading comprehension testers should be.

AB - Why should educators be preoccupied with testing reading skills? What are tests and those who conduct them actually trying to measure? How this can help learners, particularly adult learners? When it comes to reading in adult education, especially reading extensively, educators have to specify what they aim to measure: the quantity of reading done by a student in the target language be measured, or the quality, i.e. comprehension? How can the quantity of reading should be graded then? Testing reading techniques[24] such as the pace and accuracy of pronouncing combinations of letters may be suitable for young learners (or possibly, adult beginners), but it might only serve to demotivate more advanced students. The article claims that teachers should rather provide students with tools for self-evaluation than make testing a central goal in the process of teaching / learning reading. Reading is actually a complex dexterity implying several strategies to understand[25], evaluate, and interpret the author's ideas. This is what the focus of reading comprehension testers should be.

UR - https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=30460956&selid=30517803

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-5-00068-791-8

VL - Том. Выпуск 51

SP - 126

EP - 137

BT - АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ НАУКИ

PB - Центр развития научного сотрудничества

CY - Новосибирск

T2 - АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ НАУКИ

Y2 - 10 March 2017

ER -