Abstract
Investigates hypothesis that topic familiarity and assessed difficulty of a text correlate positively with performance on reading comprehension tests. A study of 177 advanced students of English for Specific Purposes indicates that students' subjective evaluation of the relative difficulty of a reading text is not always a reliable index of their actual performance on reading comprehension tests. (24 references) (GLR)
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 447- |
| Journal | Reading in a Foreign Language |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 1990 |
Keywords
- Difficulty Level
- English for Special Purposes
- Familiarity
- Performance Factors
- Reader Text Relationship
- Reading Comprehension
- Reading Research
- Reading Tests
- Second Language Learning
