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Can Discourse Be Language-Biased: Vietnamese and Non-Vietnamese Performance on 'Biased' Cloze Tests. Occasional Papers on Linguistics, No. 1.
Wilson, Craig B. – 1977
The experiment reported measured the degree to which cloze tests deliberately biased on the basis of contrastive analysis would actually be harder for Vietnamese than for speakers of other languages. The experiment tested the approach to ESL (English as a second language) for Vietnamese described in a guide for teachers of Vietnamese refugees…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)