Results indicated that the retarded Ss exhibited a significant deficiency in the ability to use context in reading as shown in their poorer ability to supply either the exact words missing or synonymous, grammatically correct words. (DB)

Describes two experiments where readers were asked to restore missing actions and physical and mental states to short narratives. Although some deletions resulted in violations of the event chain taxonomy while others did not, in both cases readers used knowledge of possible causal sequences to repair gaps in stories. (Author/MES)

The purposes of this study were to determine what context clues are used by sixth grade children as they read narrative and expository materials and to determine if narrative writing offers different clues than expository writing. A further purpose of this study was to develop a classification schema or schemata of context clues for both styles of…

Describes the progress in the development of a modified cloze technique, termed cumulative cloze, which offers greater potential than the traditional cloze task for studying the effects of contextual build-up over units of discourse larger than the sentence. (HOD)

Explores the central assumption of the cloze procedure, which is that context can be used inferentially to predict deleted words. (MKM)

Eight cloze passages were analyzed for the text quantity required to cue closure and the linguistic category of the deleted word. The results indicate that standard fixed-ratio cloze procedures are not erratic in their selection of item types and are generally consistent in the ways they measure language knowledge and comprehension. (36…

Based on part of author's doctoral dissertation, Department of Special Education and Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, University of Illinois, January, 1970. (JJ)

Explains various types of context clues to aid students in understanding vocabulary in texts. (MKM)

The cloze technique is very flexible and can reinforce reading skills and encourage writing. (JH)

Different tasks were compared using the same subjects, stimuli, and experimental methodology. The results indicate that the lexical-decision task does tend to produce greater inhibition effects than the naming task. (Author/PN)

Investigates the effect of cooperative completion of a cloze passage with subjects who are relatively sophisticated in both language use and group interaction strategies. Finds that groups produced more responses than individuals; gave fewer idiosyncratic or illogical responses; attended to larger chunks of text; and used every available clue. (RS)

The discourse cloze, an alternative cloze procedure, is described. It is argued that in the regular cloze procedure many of the words can be supplied from the "micro" context, and thus the regular cloze is not necessarily a test of reading comprehension on the "macro" level. In the discourse cloze approach, all words deleted from a passage of…

Ten graduate English majors responded to 21 samples of literary discourse chosen to represent Kinneavy's (1971) categories; the selections contained a total of 513 cloze situations. This paper reports the results of an analysis of the clues which the readers reported using when they correctly completed the clozed items. A 14-category…

In three experiments undergraduates were presented with eight adjective-noun phrases within a paired-associate list context in the orders adjective-noun and noun-adjective and instructed that either word would be given as a cue for recall. The same phrases were presented within a prose context where recall was tested by the cloze procedure. In the…