Reading Skill and Test Design Principles: Designing a Diagnostic Reading Comprehension Test for Kurdish EFL learners in the University Level

Abstract

Tests have always been considered as an indispensable part of education. Test, with its different types, has been the criterion to evaluate and decide on learners' outcome and performance in the learned subjects.This paper sheds light on the factors that are essential to be taken into consideration during designing any written test. It also presents a framework for a reading comprehension test that can be designed and administered for EFL Kurdish learners in the university level.

Keywords: reading comprehension, diagnostic test, test principles