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McLean, Stuart; Stewart, Jeffrey; Batty, Aaron Olaf – Language Testing, 2020
Vocabulary's relationship to reading proficiency is frequently cited as a justification for the assessment of L2 written receptive vocabulary knowledge. However, to date, there has been relatively little research regarding which modalities of vocabulary knowledge have the strongest correlations to reading proficiency, and observed differences have…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Tests, Language Proficiency, Test Items
Kitao, Kenji – 1995
A series of six studies of the reading ability of Japanese high school and college students investigated the ability of students to process various literary forms and the types of questions students have difficulty with at different levels of reading proficiency. Over 25,000 students completed various versions of an English reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students