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a. Perceptive Reading
According to Brown 2004, p. 189, perceptive reading is an assessment for students who are at the beginning level of reading a second language. The
tasks of perceptive reading imply that the students are in the early stages of becoming
“literate.” Therefore, perceptive reading is one of the reading test levels which focus on the components of larger stretches of discourse: letters, words,
punctuation, and other graphemic symbols Brown, 2004, p. 189. The assessment which represents perceptive reading are reading aloud, picture-cued items and
written response Brown, 2004, p. 189.
b. Selective Reading
According to Brown 2004, p. 189, selective reading is one of reading test levels which focuses on the form of a language. It ascertains the
test takers’ recognition of lexicons and grammatical rules of language within a very short
stretch of language Brown, 2004, p. 189. For examples, the preposition during has two meanings. First, the preposition during represents the meaning of a period
time as in the sentence They work during the night and sleep by day. Second, it represents the meaning of several times in a period as in the sentence I woke up
several times during the night “During”. Another example is the English
vocabulary room. It means a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts
by walls, floor and ceiling “Room”. Other English vocabulary items which may be tested are forward, support,
nice and careful. The word forward means coming to the front “Forward”. The
word Support means giving encouragement to someone or something because you
12 want them to succeed “Support”. Next, the word nice means enjoyable “Nice”.
Last, the word careful means giving a lot of attention to what you are doing so you do not have an accident, make a mistake, or damage something “Careful”
The next examples are about the grammatical rules such as the use of simple past tenses, an adverb there, a pronoun it and simple present tenses. The
simple past tense expresses events which began and end in the past Azar, 1999, p. 27. According to Allen 1995, p. 86
, “The great majority of English verbs form the past simple tense and past participle by adding the sound [d], [t] or [id] to the
stem…” Allen 1995, p. 86 states that there are irregular verbs used in the simple past tense. Besides, the verb came is one of the examples of the irregular verb
“Come”. The other examples of the grammatical rules are the use of an adverb there
and a pronoun it. The adverb there is an adverb which indicates places “There”.
Next, a pronoun is used in place of a noun Azar, 1999, p. 132. For example, I read a book; it was good. The pronoun it refers to the noun book Azar, 1999, p.
132. Next, the simple present is used to tell the truth Azar, 1999, p. 13. Krohn 1986, p. 11 states the
–s form of verbs is used in the simple present tense with
third person singular objects; otherwise the simple form is used. For example, He works every morning.
Besides testing vocabulary items and grammatical rules, English language tests may test about English expression. One of English expression which may be
tested is compliments. Compliments express appreciation and admiration at some
one’s appearance, belongings or works Bagus, 2012. There are examples of
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