The assessment of reading comprehension strategies: Practices of Jordanian public teachers at secondary level

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate the reading comprehension strategies used by Jordanian teachers at their classroom. An additional purpose was to describe and discuss the practices used by English language teachers at the secondary level to assess their students? reading comprehension. The participants of the study were twenty female teachers of the English language. They were purposefully chosen from the schools in Ajloun Directorate of Education in the second semester of the academic year 2014/2015. To answer the questions of the study, the researcher designed a survey card . qualitative analyses was used to analyze the results. The results of the study showed that the EFL teachers? indicates the importance of reading assessment which has been recognized as a crucial component of the effective teaching of reading. They used different reading strategies and reading assessment strategies. These strategies will involve word recognition lists and sentence completion tests, oral reading, , text comprehension tests and reading self-assessment and the tools that are used to assist in collecting data, and for what aims of reading assessment that these strategies will be used.