READING LITERACY OF BILINGUALS: CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF-ASSESSMENT, SPEED AND ACCURACY OF READING AT ADVANCED LEVEL

The scholarly article entitled Reading Literacy of Bilinguals: Correlation between Self-Assessment, Speed and Accuracy of Reading at Advanced Level provides analysis and synthesis of data based on two-year research of university students' reading skills related to their reading habits and to their social and cultural background which may stimulate as well as barrier one's attitude to reading. The article focuses on realistic and unrealistic self-assessment of university students' reading skills. Sample corpus is composed of 84 questionnaires, completed by students in Humanities-related academic programmes. The research is based on the assumption, that realistic self-assessment of one's reading abilities is an inevitable precondition to effective reading performance; however, many readers are not aware of their poor or ineffective reading skills and thus cannot effectively improve their performance