Composition and retelling tasks may be more appropriate for advanced
students at a high level of English proficiency level than for those at other
levels, because they presuppose a high level of speaking ability. Fill-in andsummarizing tasks may be more appropriate for beginning- or intermediatelevel
students.
Vocabulary Exercises
Because vocabulary gains for unknown words can be augmented more effectively
when a reading text is accompanied by text-based vocabulary exercises
than without them (Wesche & Paribakht, 2000), teachers need to
consider possible ways of developing exercises that students can carry out
with new words to realize varied lexical features. Similarly, a matching
exercise and a crossword puzzle can be designed with the target words as
follows.