Comprehension skills and reading tasks

Abstract

This article reports data from a study into the separability of
reading skills. Based on a study conducted by Alderson (1990), teachers
of English as a foreign language were presented a list of reading skills
and were asked to identify what three reading tasks were measuring in
terms of the list. A comparison between the teachers' responses and the
objectives established by the author of the tasks has been interpreted as
evidence of the unitary view of reading, as opposed to the multidivisible
view of the process.

DOI: 10.28998/0103-6858.2001n28-29p15-28