Circumlocution--using known vocabulary to describe a forgotten or unknown word--can help English language learners avoid communication breakdowns when speaking. Students of all proficiency levels can benefit from instruction and practice related to circumlocution strategies. In the activity presented in this article, students use these strategies…

In twenty-first-century language teaching, the class should be student-centered and provide learners with skills that empower them in real-life situations. In this regard, it is commonly said that practice makes perfect. It therefore makes sense for teachers to ask themselves how much their listening activities demand from students and to evaluate…

A resource teacher describes her approach to helping prepare reading disabled students to use commercial preprimer, primer, and first grade materials through specially designed cloze sentences interspersed with questions. (CL)

Deletion exercises, in which students are asked to supply words removed from texts, can be motivating for learning disabled students. The most common categories of information items that can be deleted include narrative, grammatical, conceptual, and logical elements. (CL)

Practical suggestions are presented for developing cloze passages and using them with groups, beginning students, and dyslexic students. (SK)

Discusses the appropriateness of using cloze technique exercises for teaching a highly inflected language, such as Latin. Describes a cloze program for early second-year Latin students. (EKN)

Reports research using the Cloze procedure to assess undergraduate students in a Development and Learning course. Data indicate that students having a higher percent correct fill-ins on Cloze have a significantly easier time meeting the criteria of the course. (Author/KC)

Describes the use of a modified maze approach to teach why some words are more appropriate than others in a poem. (MKM)

Describes ways in which the cloze procedure is used for instruction rather than for testing. (MKM)

The cloze procedure, an inductive teaching approach taking advantage of available cues within children's storybooks, is advocated for use with developmentally delayed students. Visual, auditory, and sequential and semantic cues may be offered as prompts. (CL)

Discusses using the story frame as a cloze procedure with middle school students to develop reading comprehension. (SR)

Describes four teaching techniques which help poor readers experience decoding automatically. (MKM)

Offers a teaching technique that modifies the cloze procedure into letter-cloze independent activities designed to aid children in learning difficult sight words. (FL)

Suggests three uses of the cloze procedure in content area reading to emphasize particular features such as content, structure, or concept. Provides illustrations of each type of study guide. (TJ)

Cloze testing and language performance is discussed as are two techniques for awarding partial credit: the quick performance measurement and feedback technique and the three-stage scoring hierarchy for partial credit. A figure and tables are included. (EJS)