7. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESS “Answering a test question is likely to involve a variety of interrelated skills, rather than one skill only or even mainly…it appears to be extremely difficult if not impossible to isolate them for the sake of testing or research” (p.49) “the reading [italics added] process is normally silent, internal, private”…in Smith’s (1971) terms, “what the Brain Tells the Eye is More Important than What the Eye Tells the Brain” (p.4) How can we feasibly turn this internal process into an external one?
8. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESS Textually Explicit Questions Textually Implicit Questions Script-based Questions Pearson and Johnson (1978) cited in Alderson (2000, p.87) TYPES OF QUESTIONS “Texts located in familiar settings, on everyday topics, are likely to be easier to process than those that are not” (p. 62)
9. READING AS A COGNITIVE PROCESS TYPES OF QUESTIONS What do you think textually explicit questions are about? Textually Explicit Questions are those where both the question information and the correct answer are found in the same sentence. What do you think textually implicit questions are about? Textually Implicit Questions, on the other hand, require responders to combine information across sentences. What do you think Scrip-based questions are about? Scrip-based Questions requires readers to integrate text information with their background knowledge since correct responses to the questions cannot be found in the text itself.
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