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O'Toole, J. M.; King, R. A. R. – Language Testing, 2011
The "cloze" test is one possible investigative instrument for predicting text comprehensibility. Conceptual coding of student replacement of deleted words has been considered to be more valid than exact coding, partly because conceptual coding seemed fairer to poorer readers. This paper reports a quantitative study of 447 Australian…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Test Results, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension
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Zheng, Ying; Cheng, Liying – Language Testing, 2008
The purpose of the College English Test (CET) is to examine the English proficiency of undergraduate students in China and ensure that Chinese undergraduates reach the required English levels specified in the National College English Teaching Syllabus (NCETS). In accordance with the courses on the syllabus, the CET consists of three tests: Band 4…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension
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Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid; Talebinezhad, Mohammad Reza – Language Testing, 2006
It is said that one important aspect of education is the production of coherent discourse (Halliday and Hasan, 1985). This is the speaker's or the writer's ability to organize relevant meanings in relation to each other, and this in turn requires the establishment of "chain interaction"--relations between components of a message--in a text. The…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Writing (Composition), Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension