Dear students:
We are doing a language testing research. Could you please help us by completing this questionnaire? The following questions are about the summary writing test you have just taken stating the various operations engaged. Please tick the option that most suits your situation. There is no right or wrong answer. All the information you submitted shall be taken as confidential and only used to serve the purpose of this research!
Name: Sex: male female
About reading strategy use
While reading the text, how did you apply the following strategies? Please tick one option from 1-5 that most suits your situation. 1=never, 2=occasionally, 3=sometimes,
4=often, 5=always. There is no right or wrong answer.
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21 Read title
22 Establish connections between propositions
23 Identify and skip unknown word
24 Identify problem in understanding
25 Reflect on particular word/phrase/expression
26 Infer word/phrase/sentence meaning
27 Moderate understanding
28 Compare related information within text
29 Interpret content meaning with own words
30 Affirm understanding
31 Check inference
32 Translate/process text content for understanding
33 Recall word meaning
34 Use linguistic knowledge to guess word/phrase meaning
35 Refer to previous part
36 Dis/confirm inference
37 Reread for clarification
38 Integrate what is already known with text idea
39 Skip unknown phrase/portion
40 Use context clues to interpret meaning
41 Use context clues to predict meaning
42 Use phonological cues
43 Extrapolate based on understanding
44 Note and analyze sentence structure
45 Note and analyze text structure
46 Identify and learn key words in text
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About writing strategy use
While summarizing the text, how did you apply the following strategies? Please tick one option from 1-5 that most suits your situation. 1=never, 2=occasionally,
3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=always. There is no right or wrong answer.
No. Description
47 Aware of task requirement and goal
48 Identify topic sentence of paragraph
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49 Recall idea
50 Reprocess information to clarify meaning
51 Assess importance of idea for use in writing
52 Work out main idea of paragraph
53 Set organizational frame to meet own rhetorical needs
54 Reorganize source pattern
55 Compare own writing to source
56 Edit for content
57 Edit for language, including grammar, expression, vocabulary and punctuation
58 Work out text thesis
59 Identify problem in writing
60 Integrate detail of what is read
61 Lift sentence from source
62 Manipulate information identified as important, such as delete unnecessary information or condense ideas
63 Paraphrase selected portion
64 Plan the process
65 Plan content and language
66 Recall word memory
67 Recall grammatical rule
68 Recall phrase or expression
69 Reread portion for use in writing
70 Reread title
71 Scan text for information to use in writing
72 Scan for specific word to use in writing
73 Skim for gist
74 Revise plan
75 Use phonological cues
76 Read own writing
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