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- Title
Another Turn in the Conversation: What Does Cloze Measure?
- Authors
Jonz, John
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study related to the controversy whether the cloze procedure measures comprehension that ranges beyond the context immediately surrounding a cloze deletion. A similar pattern of constraint on responses across cloze passages was found. The study has indicated that the standard fixed-ratio cloze procedure has a high level of sensitivity to intersentential ties and lexical selections. It has also demonstrated that the kinds of language knowledge which is required to complete cloze tests is virtually the same for all tests. There are some implications of these findings. One of them is that in its selection of item types, the fixed-ratio cloze procedure is far from erratic. This study has also suggested that, for the purpose of deriving tests of language comprehension, tests are produced by the cloze procedure that are consistent in the ways they measure the language knowledge of examinees.
- Subjects
CLOZE procedure; READING ability testing; LEXICOLOGY; CODE emphasis approaches to reading; FOREIGN language education; EDUCATION research; PHONOLOGY; COMPREHENSION strategies; READING comprehension
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1990, Vol 24, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3586852