Assessing an individual's film reading ability

Assessing Reading

Assessing Translation Ability through Vocabulary Ability Assessment

Translation ability is known as one of the most difficult language abilities to measure. A typical method of measuring translation ability involves asking translators to translate sentences and to request professional evaluators to grade the translations. It imposes a heavy burden on both translators and evaluators. In this paper, we propose a practical method for assessing translation ability....

Genetic transmission of reading ability.

Reading is the processing of written language. Family resemblance for reading (dis)ability might be due to transmission of a genetic liability or due to family environment, including cultural transmission from parents to offspring. Familial-risk studies exploring neurobehavioral precursors for dyslexia and twin studies can only speak to some of these issues, but a combined twin-family study can...

Interest and Ability in Reading

Heading. Arthur I. Gates. New York. The Macmillan Company. 1930. vii -j264 pp. In keeping step -vvitli the movement of scientific method in education, Perhaps no one has distinguished himself in the publication of material relating to children's reading so greatly as has Professor Gates, of Teachers College, Columbia University. For the last decade he has interested himself in the specific natu...

static versus dynamic assessment of l2 learners’ reading ability

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...