From: Test review: a general academic English summative test
Vocabulary knowledge | Grammar knowledge | Academic reading skills | Academic writing skills |
---|---|---|---|
• Acquiring widely-used academic words | • Analyzing sentence members | • Identifying topic sentences | • Summarizing |
• Acquiring widely-used collocations | • Analyzing complex sentences | • Identifying structure | • Paraphrasing |
• Using logical connectors properly | • Understanding the use of active and passive voices | • Making inferences | • Inserting in-text citations |
• Using phrases properly | • Sentence structures | • Analyzing the logic between sentences | • Synthesizing sources |
• Identifying reporting verbs | • Using Verb tenses correctly | • Identifying research gaps | • Using cohesive devices |
 |  | • Understanding cohesive devices | • Using Nominalization |
 |  | • Guessing the general meaning of unfamiliar words | • Using hedges |
 |  |  | • Evaluating previous studies |