Analisi (classica, Rasch, dei distrattori) di una prova di lettura a scelta multipla della certificazione di italiano per stranieri CILS

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https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.2.27

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ITEM ANALYSIS, ASSESSING READING COMPREHENSION, MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS, ITEM ANALYSIS

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In the following article, we carry out an analysis of the items from a multiple choice reading test for CILS (Italian as a Foreign Language Certification) (Centro CILS, 2009), run by the Università per Stranieri di Siena.We also examine the way in which the original text was modified for the test by the certifying body, leading to what we identify as a critical issue which, in our view, detracts from the text’s coherence. This study illustrates some of the difficulties in designing an exercise used widely in both testing and teaching context, that is, the multiple choice question.

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Paolo Torresan, Alma Edizioni

Paolo Torresan teaches courses in Modern Language Pedagogy and Teaching Italian to Speakers of Other Languages at the University of Catania (Special School of Foreign Languages and Literatures based in Ragusa). He has conducted research at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Complutense University and Autónoma University in Madrid, and at Lancaster University in England. He was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Santa Monica College, California, USA and Visiting Professor at Rio De Janeiro State University, Brazil. He is author and trainer for the Italian publishing company ALMA
Edizioni and editor of the journals Officina.it and Bollettino ITALS. He co/authored: Intelligenze e didattica delle lingue (Bologna: EMI, 2008); Il noticing comparativo (with Francesco Della Valle. München: Lincom, 2013), and Studio su cloze mirati della certificazione CILS, livello avanzato (Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts, 2015). He also edited with Manuela Derosas, Didáctica de las lenguas culturas. Nuevas perspectivas (Buenos Aires: Sb International, 2011).

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2015-08-30

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Torresan, P. (2015). Analisi (classica, Rasch, dei distrattori) di una prova di lettura a scelta multipla della certificazione di italiano per stranieri CILS. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2(1), 20–54. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.2.27

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015)

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Research Articles - Regular Issue

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