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Can Cloze Tests Really Improve Second Language Learners Reading Comprehension Skills?

Can Cloze Tests Really Improve Second Language Learners Reading Comprehension Skills?

... The findings of this study imply that good reading comprehension skills need to be taught rather than by attempting a number of different cloze tests. Then, the question remains: what reading strategies can ...

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Entropy as a Proxy for Gap Complexity in Open Cloze Tests

Entropy as a Proxy for Gap Complexity in Open Cloze Tests

... Research on predicting the difficulty of cloze tests is also directly relevant to this work. Bein- born et al. (2014) built models to predict the diffi- culty of C-tests (i.e. gaps with half of the ...

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The Relationship Between Anxiety and Test-Taking C-Test and Cloze-Test

The Relationship Between Anxiety and Test-Taking C-Test and Cloze-Test

... that Cloze-tests are different form simple blank-filing ...In Cloze- tests, deleted words are selected subjectively, namely, of structural comprehension ...that Cloze-tests could ...

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Measuring reading comprehension: the judgmental validity of cloze procedure

Measuring reading comprehension: the judgmental validity of cloze procedure

... 30%), cloze tests have been regarded as valid substitutes for the criterion test (a 3-hour placement test in Jonz’s case) in line with Oller’s (1973) argument that "if the correlation is sufficiently ...

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Bundled Gap Filling: A New Paradigm for Unambiguous Cloze Exercises

Bundled Gap Filling: A New Paradigm for Unambiguous Cloze Exercises

... Cloze-tests (or gap-fill tasks) (Taylor, 1953) are a frequently used exercise type, where a target word in a sentence is hidden and replaced with a gap. The learner is then asked to figure out the hidden ...

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Towards Automatic Scoring of Cloze Items by Selecting Low Ambiguity Contexts

Towards Automatic Scoring of Cloze Items by Selecting Low Ambiguity Contexts

... learning, cloze tests (also known as fill-in-the-blank tests) are frequently used for assessing the learning progress of ...these tests is low, scoring needs to be done manually, as there ...

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Student-centred cloze: A New Tool for Measuring EFL Reading Comprehension?

Student-centred cloze: A New Tool for Measuring EFL Reading Comprehension?

... student-centred cloze tests were administered first. After 25 minutes, the cloze papers and answer sheets were collected and the FCE/CAE reading test was administered, which took another 20 ...The ...

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Washback effects of multiple-choice, cloze and metalinguistic tests on EFL students writing

Washback effects of multiple-choice, cloze and metalinguistic tests on EFL students writing

... linguistic tests significantly outperformed the control group in doing gra mmar-focused writing tasks while those who received multip le-choice tests did not show an imp rovement over the control ...ze ...

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Behind the Scenes of an Evolving Event Cloze Test

Behind the Scenes of an Evolving Event Cloze Test

... Automatic Tests: First, the LM cloze tests are automatically generated with all the mistakes of parsers and ...narrative cloze was manually created by human annotators who interpreted ...

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The Role of Explicit Instruction on Using Conjunctions in Iranian EFL Learners' Written Performance

The Role of Explicit Instruction on Using Conjunctions in Iranian EFL Learners' Written Performance

... of cloze tests outperformed the control group which just received model ...using cloze test would make certain parts of the texts perceptually ...the cloze test and having access to the ...

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Effects of Different Response Types on Iranian EFL Test Takers’ Performance

Effects of Different Response Types on Iranian EFL Test Takers’ Performance

... multiple-choice cloze and multiple- choice test, on the pre-intermediate and intermediate test takers’ reading comprehension ...of tests and two test ...two tests in a different ...choice ...

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Cognitive Styles on C-Test and Cloze-Elide Test: Which Style Acts Better?

Cognitive Styles on C-Test and Cloze-Elide Test: Which Style Acts Better?

... of cloze test: C-test and Cloze-Elide ...the cloze test since regarding the variety of passages, a better sampling of content areas, styles, genres and certain and certain vocabulary items can be ...

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Iranian EFL Teachers' Views on Measuring Reading Comprehension

Iranian EFL Teachers' Views on Measuring Reading Comprehension

... on cloze tests were proper indicators of their students’ understanding of the passages on which cloze tests were based, and that only a minority believed that cloze tests were ...

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Summary Cloze: A New Task for Content Selection in Topic Focused Summarization

Summary Cloze: A New Task for Content Selection in Topic Focused Summarization

... summary cloze task. The goal of the sum- mary cloze task is to generate the next sen- tence of a summary conditioned on the begin- ning of the summary, a topic, and a reference ...the cloze task does ...

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ChID: A Large scale Chinese IDiom Dataset for Cloze Test

ChID: A Large scale Chinese IDiom Dataset for Cloze Test

... Machine reading comprehension aims to assess the ability to comprehend natural language and answer questions from a given document or pas- sage. As a classical method of assessing language proficiency (Fotos, 1991; Jonz, ...

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Large scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

Large scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension

... word’s cloze probability (cloze), calculated in a separate, non-speeded sentence completion task as the percent- age of continuations of a sentence fragment with that word (Taylor, ...increasing ...

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Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test

Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test

... The results in Table 4, which show classifi- cation accuracy when using EndingReg on the two new data sources, show that Method #2 is a slightly better data sourcing scheme in reduc- ing the bias, since the EndingReg ...

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Recovery of Oregon Coast Coho Salmon (Onchorhynchus kitsutch) through Restoration of Freshwater Habitats

Recovery of Oregon Coast Coho Salmon (Onchorhynchus kitsutch) through Restoration of Freshwater Habitats

... Among all the ways mentioned in the project, extensive reading activity is the main element in each reading class since it is well supported by much research and by educators. Most elementary students do various after ...

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Factual open cloze question generation for assessment of learner’s knowledge

Factual open cloze question generation for assessment of learner’s knowledge

... Question generation is the task of generating good quality assessment item automat- ically from a given input corpus to examine the content knowledge of the learner (Heilman & Smith, 2010b; Kunichika, Katayama, ...

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A shift in cloze procedure usage: A new tool for activating ZPD

A shift in cloze procedure usage: A new tool for activating ZPD

... the cloze texts to check their answers and evaluate their learning, and if needed, correct their wrongly answered ...the cloze procedure before instruction ...the cloze procedure, which was received ...

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