ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THEORIES ON THE METHODOLOGY OF READING COMPREHENSION ASSESSMENT

Abstract

Looking at the history of research, it becomes clear that "reading comprehension" as a concept does not have a long past. Until the 17th - 19th centuries, the ability to read and understand was understood as the ability to express orally, but the first systematic approaches as a field were implemented at the beginning of the 20th century. However, its components, foundations, and cognitive processes were not well studied and adequately substantiated in reading comprehension assessment contexts until the 1990s. This article looks at the history of the development of the field of assessment of reading comprehension skills and talks about the specific characteristics of the studies of each period.