Effect of item variety on the performance of EFL learners' reading comprehension
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 9, Issue 6
Abstract
Reading comprehension can be considered as a multifaceted skill that involves understanding a text, processing information, and interpreting the author's intention. Moreover, item variety has been regarded as one of the most important factors affecting the testee's performance on reading comprehension. The research literature reports that varying test items may differentially influence the performance of EFL learners. The present study's main aim is to investigate the effect of item variety on students' L2 reading comprehension test performance. To this end, 30 EFL learners from one language institute in Kashan, Iran were asked to respond the questions of three reading passages with a general topic of communication. Item varieties following each passage included true/false, multiple-choice, and gap filling questions, respectively. The results indicated that participants' performances were affected by the item variety. It was also found that the difficulty level of test items from the most difficult to the easiest were multiple-choice, true/false, and gap-filling questions, respectively.
Authors and Affiliations
Bahardoust Maryam| email: shadib49571@yahoo.com, Ghaemi Farid
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