The Cloze Technique and ESL Proficiency  

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Conrad, Christine A. ; Oller, John W. (Jr.)

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 2 (Dec. 1971), page 183-196.
Fulltext: 21_02_Oiler_Conrad.pdf (721.09KB)

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The variety of fill-in-blank test known as the “cloze” pro- cedure is discussed as a device for teaching and testing ESL Proficiency. Research with native speakers and the sparse litera- ture available concerning studies with non-native speakers are explored briefly. An experiment is conducted to attempt to par- tially determine the discriminative power of a cloze test (scored by the exact-word method) and its validity as a device for meas- uring ESL skills. Students in beginning, intermediate, and ad- vanced ESL along with two control groups of native (ENL) speak- ers (freshmen and graduates, respectively) are tested. Differen- tiation of levels of proficiency among the ESL groups seems adequate, but ENL freshmen are not significantly distinct from advanced ESL students though they are significantly inferior to ENL graduate students. The cloze test correlates best with the dictation (.82) on the UCLA ESLPE 2C, and next best with the reading section (.80): multiple correlation with all sections is .88. It is concluded that the cloze method is a very promising device for measuring ESL proficiency.

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