The UFSM English TESLLE – a study about kinds, foci and linguistic aspects of the questions and the testees’ scores
Abstract
The Teste de Suficiência em Leitura em Língua Estrangeira (TESLLE) of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) is applied in the institution once a semester for the academic community that needs to prove additional language academic reading competence. The objective of this study is 1) to identify to what extend it is possible to relate the kinds and foci of questions with the indexes of successes and errors by the testees and 2) to identify the aspects of language that each question requires that the testees recognize in six editions of the English TESLLE. The corpus of the study is composed of six editions of the English TESLLE applied between the first semester of 2014 and the last semester of 2016. The results point that the most recurrent questions are the ones of the kind question and answer, and focus on textual, semantic and pragmatic aspects. The relation among the kinds and foci of questions and the indexes of successes and errors is not clear. However, we can relate the kind of question association with high indexes of successes and the kind agree or disagree with high indexes of errors. Likewise, the questions that focus on speech functions, genre and translation are related to high indexes of successes, while the questions that focus on inference are related to high indexes of errors. The analysis showed that the testees are gradually reaching better scores in the English TESLLE.
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