Textual complexity adjustments to the English reading comprehension test for undergraduate EFL students.

ABSTRACT: It can be challenging for teachers to prepare students for a reading comprehension test. While most research on reading comprehension tests focuses on the interaction between the text complexity and test-taker's ability, this study investigates the interaction between the text complexity and degree of difficulty of the tasks, following each text in an adapted reading comprehension test. The experiment examined the plausibility of adapting a reading comprehension test for university students through textual complexity management. It involved undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) participants (N = 1000) with English proficiency levels ranging from A1 to C2. A 38-item reading comprehension test with textual complexity adjustment was adapted. Item fit was assessed using the

SUBMITTER: Anggia H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9868442 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature