The purpose of the study was to investigate how far cloze procedure valid in monitoring EFLstudent teachers reading comprehension and implicitly their progress Five hundred student paticipated the  work  experimental validity tests had be checked correlation  to  commonly used technique a passage followed by some questions As depends mainly on students which turn has do with  his /her preference

Linguists have suggested that one mechanism for the creative extension of meaning in language involves mapping, or constructing correspondences between conceptual domains. For example, the sentence, "The clever boys used a cardboard box as a boat," sets up a novel mapping between the concepts cardboard box and boat, while "His main method of transportation is a boat," relies on a more conventio...

This preliminary study examines the relationships between each of six first language (L1) readability indexes and cloze passage mean performances Russian EFL students. The passages were created by randomly selecting 50 text from an American public library deleting every 12th word in to create a 30-item procedure. participants 5170 students 38 universities theRussian Federation. Each student was...

We administered six functional intelligibility tests, i.e., spoken and written versions of (i) an isolated word recognition test, (ii) a cloze test at the sentence level and (iii) a picture-to-text matching task at the paragraph level. The scores on these functional tests were compared with each other and with intersubjective measures obtained for the same materials through opinion testing, i.e...

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...

When performing online language comprehension, comprehenders probabilistically anticipate upcoming words. Psycholinguistic studies thus often depend on accurately estimating stimulus predictability, either to control it or to study it, and this estimation is conventionally accomplished via the cloze task. But we do not know how effectively — or even, strictly speaking, whether — cloze probabili...