Investigating the Relatedness of Cloze-Elide Test, Multiple-Choice Cloze Test, and C-test as Measures of Reading Comprehension

investigating the relatedness of cloze-elide test, multiple-choice cloze test, and c-test as measures of reading comprehension

reading comprehension ability consists of multiple cognitive processes, and cloze tests have long been claimed to measure this ability as a whole. however, since the introduction of cloze test, different varieties of it have been proposed by the testers. thus, the present study was an attempt to examine the relatedness of cloze-elide test, multiple-choice (mc) cloze test, and c-test as three di...

Cloze test and c test

Cloze-Elide Test as an Alternative Test Method: Linking Personality Types to Test Method Performance

More innovative test methods may measure language learners’ test performance more accurately, contributing to much fairer decisions. This study examined Iranian language learners’ performance on cloze-elide test as an innovative, integrative test method. It specifically focused on investigating whether personality types correlated with their performance and whether personality types could predi...

cloze test and c test

the present study was an attempt to investigate varieties of cloze test and c-test as measures of reading comprehension ability. it aimed at comparing the performances of subjects on different cloze and c-test forms constructed from the same passage. to this end, five versions of cloze test and two versions of c-test were developed by applying different deletion techniques and deletion rates, a...

modularity of reading comprehension in multiple-choice cloze procedure and reliability fluctuation

هدف این رساله تحقیق در مورد یافتن ارتباط بین واحدهای درک مطلب (از قبیل پروسه واژگانی، پروسه ساختاری و پروسه تفسیر معنایی) از طریق تست کلوز چهار چوابی در بین دانشجویان سال آخر رشته زبان انگلیسی میباشد. در مرحله اول از 150 دانشجو (80 مونث و 70 مذکر) از بین دانشجویان کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاههای علامه طباطبائی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی و دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شمال تست نلسون (450 دی) گرفته شد. ...

using c-test passages for improving reading comprehension ability and incidentally learned vocabulary of iranian efl learners

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of using c-test passages on the reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. the participants were 60 male efl learners at kish mehr institute in garmsar. in fact, there were two groups, an experimental group and a comparison group with 30 students in each. the participants were pretested throu...