Testing Reading for Specific Purposes in an Art Education Course for Graduate Students in Saudi Arabia

Autor/in	Al-Jarf, Reima
Titel	Testing Reading for Specific Purposes in an Art Education Course for Graduate Students in Saudi Arabia
Quelle	8 (2021) 1, S.32-42 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2394-7780
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Art Education; Morphemes; English for Special Purposes; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Tests; Scores; Semitic Languages; Sentences; Reading Tests; Foreign Countries; Needs Assessment; Language Proficiency; Student Attitudes; Pretests Posttests; Translation; Native Language; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Morphem; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language test; Sprachtest; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Lesetest; Ausland; Bedarfsermittlung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Schülerverhalten; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	Since most Saudi graduate students are not proficient in English, they are required to take an ESP course to enable them to read and comprehend reference material in English and translate the required information for their assignments and theses. Based on a needs assessment questionnaire and an English Proficiency Test results, an ESP course was especially designed to meet art education students' academic and professional needs. At the end of the semester, the students were posttested. The posttest required the students to locate main ideas and supporting details and to figure out meanings of key art terms from context. It also required them to identify the part of speech of art terms and detach suffixes. They also gave the overall meaning of short paragraphs and single sentences in Arabic. A detailed description of the content sampled, skills tested, sample items, and statistical analyses of the ESP reading test scores are reported. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01