the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of modified cloze procedure on writing proficiency of iranian intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 110 participants studying at semnan university majoring in english literature were tested on celt proficiency test. 65 participants who were found to be homogenous were selected and assigned randomly to two groups...

the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of modified cloze procedure on writing proficiencyof iranian intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 110 participantsstudying at semnan university majoring in english literature were tested on celt proficiency test.65 participants who were found to be homogenous were selected and assigned randomly to twogroups of ...

nonlinear knapsack problems (nkp) are the alternative formulation for the multiple-choice knapsack problems. a powerful approach for solving nkp is dynamic programming which may obtain the global op-timal solution even in the case of discrete solution space for these problems. despite the power of this solu-tion approach, it computationally performs very slowly when the solution space of the pr...

background: evaluation of multiple-choice questions is a strategic activity and the most effective tool in educational system and improvement. in this study, the quality of some indexes of multiple-choice exams in babol para medical faculty was investigated on the basis of structure and knowledge level distribution in the first semesters of 2007 and 2012. methods: the milman checklist was used ...

While aging is associated with increased knowledge, it is also associated with decreased semantic integration. To investigate brain activation changes during semantic integration, a sample of forty-eight 25-75 year-old adults read sentences with high cloze (HC) and low cloze (LC) probability while functional magnetic resonance imaging was conducted. Significant age-related reduction of cloze ef...

Natural language processing technology has made significant progress in recent years, fuelled by increasingly powerful general models. This also inspired a sizeable body of work targeted specifically towards the educational domain, where creation questions (both for assessment and practice) is laborious/expensive effort. Thus, automatic Question-Generation (QG) solutions have been proposed stud...

This paper discusses the implementation and evaluation of automatically generated cloze questions in the style of the definitions found in Collins COBUILD English language learner’s dictionary. The definitions and the cloze questions are used in an automated reading tutor to help second and third grade students learn new vocabulary. A parser provides syntactic phrase structure trees for the def...

This research sought to investigate the relationship between simultaneous interpreters’ oral cloze performance, their emotional intelligence, and gender. In other words, the study tried to predict the variability in performance on simultaneous interpreting (SI) oral cloze test based on the variability in gender, emotional quotient (EQ) and its subscales. To this end, a number of seventy partici...

Advances in text simplification depend on reliable judgments of sentence difficulty. The ability of untrained native English speakers to judge sentence difficulty in the presence of variation in semantic similarity is examined using cloze tests and a forced-choice comparison task. Judgments from participants in web-based experiments demonstrate ability to assess sentence difficulty of professio...