Reading Comprehension Tests: General or Subject-Specific?.

Shoham, Miriam; And Others

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Publication Date: 1987

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Reading Comprehension Tests: General or Subject-Specific?

Shoham, Miriam; And Others

System, v15 n1 p81-88 1987

Investigation of the relevance of student background discipline (185 college students studying science and technology, biology, and humanities and social science) on tests of reading comprehension in English as a foreign language found that content area passages do affect student performance on reading comprehension tests but not as greatly as expected. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Correlation, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Tests, Relevance (Education), Second Language Learning

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