Grammatical Competence in Constructing Wh-Questions in Reading Comprehension Test: A Proposed Study

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.046How to use a DOI?

Keywords

grammatical competence, wh-questions, reading test construction

Abstract

Creating a reading comprehension test is a common task for teachers. In constructing a reading comprehension test, grammar plays a big role in minimizing the possibility of misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the questions. One of the common question types used is wh-question. This paper aims to find out English education students’ grammatical competences in constructing wh-question in reading comprehension test. This is a descriptive study because it describes the detail analysis of students’ grammar competence in creating wh-question tests. The data of this study was students’ final test in Language Assessment course. There were seventy students who joined Language Assessment course and they were asked to create ten reading comprehension questions each. In fact, among 70 students, 17 of them will be analyzed in this preliminary study. The data were analyzed using the theory from Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), those are, omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. This study found that the participants have grammatical problems in omission for 42%, addition 22%, misformation 30%, and misordering 6%.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tesha Fersty Fadhilah
AU  - Hermawati Syarif
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - Grammatical Competence in Constructing Wh-Questions in Reading Comprehension Test: A Proposed Study
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 256
EP  - 261
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.046
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.046
ID  - Fadhilah2021
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