UNDERSTANDING READING COMPREHENSION AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Keywords:
receptive task: pre-teaching vocabulary, extensive reading/listening, speaking genres, poor acoustics, audibility, authentic materials, demotivate learners,Abstract
The aim of the theme is to study thoroughly and to reveal the to give about receptive skills of the target language and to make conclusions about the reading tasks of English and what are the criteria of this document for reading. The object is to study, analyze and most importantly investigate the process of testing reading and find reading tasks according to the different levels and to study of methods and techniques that are used in assessing reading.
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