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Perkins, Kyle; German, Patricia – 1985
A study of the information gained by students in the process of taking a cloze test in English as a second language was conducted with 34 full-time undergraduate foreign students at a state university. The subjects came from a variety of native language backgrounds. A 35-item cloze test was developed in which every eighth word was deleted,…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
Download full textDerrick-Mescua, Maria; Gmuca, Jacqueline L. – 1985
A university writing faculty conducted a study of the concepts of unity in expository prose and of sentence structure as understood by Arabic, Malay, and Spanish speakers to discover why some students grasp some concepts more readily than others. Interviews, surveys, and analysis of written compositions revealed that the reason lies in ways these…
Descriptors: Arabic, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students
TECFORS, 1982
Numbers 1 through 5 of the 1982 TECFORS newsletter include these articles: "A Comprehensive ESL Reading Program" (Carol Qazi); "The Purpose of the Passive" (Virginia French Allen); "'Standards' Seconded" (Timothy H. Robinson); "Vocabulary and the College-Bound International Student" (Parts 1-3) (Kerry Segel); "Using Invention Heuristics to Teach…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, College Bound Students, English (Second Language)
