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No Topics and Texts
Test Content Description Reading Questions
Grammatical Questions
the meaning of word phrase or sentence in the text
4. Review -
Remember Blue -
Bucket List -
Nature Lesson -
The purpose of the text -
Main ideas -
Supporting ideas and details -
True-false information or critique
- Vocabulary synonym and
the meaning of word phrase or sentence in the text
- Complex-
compound sentences
5. Activities and Sources
After selecting test content, the writer selected activities for the test by determining a set of tasks. The task for the test is in the form of multiple-choice
test. In accordance with the test content, the writer classified the task into reading comprehension passage, multiple-choice grammar tasks, and multiple-choice
cloze vocabulary task. The explanation is presented as following:
a. Reading Comprehension Passage
A set of questions in reading comprehension passage were arranged to measure test takers’ comprehension of the passage. The task could cover questions
about main idea or topic, expressions idioms phrases in context, inference, grammatical features, detail, unstated detail, supporting ideas, and vocabulary
in context. These questions represented reading question items in test content.
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Multiple-choice Cloze Vocabulary Task Multiple-choice cloze vocabulary task was included in reading selective as
well. This type might not specifically help test takers to respond and to complete the passage more easily, because it needed the awareness of
understanding passage and grammatical check. In this study, the writer applied multiple-choice cloze vocabulary task in one narrative text.
c. Multiple-choice Grammar Task
Multiple-choice grammar task was included in reading selective task in which the test designer focuses on formal aspect of language, grammatical. The
purpose of this task was to check students’ awareness of grammar. This type of task was easy to administer and can be scored quickly. This type represents
grammatical questions in test content. The detailed information about tasks description was explained in the following
table.
Table 4.7: Task Content Description of the Designed Tests
Content Task Content
Reading Comprehension Passage
MC Grammar Task MC Cloze
Vocabulary Task
Reading Passage
- No Welcome at Hotel
- The Miracle Baby
- The Birth of Jersey
Devil -
Miami Bus Express -
Hot Air Balloon -
Satellite -
Ibuprofen -
Salmonella Poisoning -
Pizza -
Clothes -
Direct-indirect speech
- Past tense
- Simple present
tense -
Passive voice -
Thinking verb: feel, believe, hope
- Modalities
- Conditional
sentences -
Sultan -
Jack and the Beans
- Davy
Crockett
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Content Task Content
Reading Comprehension Passage
MC Grammar Task MC Cloze
Vocabulary Task
- Red Poppy
- Immigration
- Convince or Care
- Nature Lesson
- Remember Blue
- Bucket List
- Complex-
compound sentences
The test could be conducted in-school and outside-school. In-school meant that the students conducted in computer laboratory, whereas outside-school meant
test-takers might access the designed test from any supporting facilities they found such as internet cafes, hot-spot area, or their house.
The sources in developing the test were from the Internet. The writer collected some reading passages, articles, or stories that were appropriate with the
topics. Moreover, the writer created some questions based on the reading text accessed from Internet. The communication between teachers-students and the
writer were facilitated via email. The sources of the designed test mostly were taken from the Internet, although the writer also obtained some reading passage
from students’ books.
6. Support Services
