This study aimed to discover semantic and syntactic problems Persian native speakers might have while reading English and Persian texts and different strategies they use to overcome those problems. To this end, a convenient sample of 40 intermediate students studying English Literature at Shiraz University was selected. Twenty of them were asked…

Advances in technology have caused a major shift in how students spend their time and challenged curriculum development to maintain interest and focus in the classroom. Implications are most profound in issues related to literacy due to a lack of experience and interest in reading. This article explores this issue and how it relates to teaching…

Suggests using the cloze procedure as a means of helping poor readers develop critical reading skills. (RB)

Contends that the cloze procedure is an effective technique for use in teaching specific reading skills as well as a test of rate and comprehension. (FL)

Describes four activities--oral cloze, "zip,""maze," and synonym cloze--which have been successful in introducing primary students to the prediction procedures so critical to comprehension development. (JM)

This study describes the synthesis of the cloze technique with story-mapping techniques resulting in the Cloze Story Map (CSM) and tests the immediate and long-term usefulness of CSM with both expository and narrative texts. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

In the computer age, challenges have gained a new quality, and teachers, especially with their pedagogic responsibilities, have gained a new role to play. To familiarize themselves with the new technology and to become aware of its value in language education, the potentials of this new technology can be utilized to enhance the basic language…

Argues that the cloze procedure is an effective means of teaching context cues to Educationally Sub-Normal (ESN) children. (RB)

The purpose of this monograph is to review and synthesize the literature pertaining directly to the use of cloze as a teaching technique. The literature review is arranged into eight sections: (1) analysis of comparative studies, in which studies that have compared the cloze procedure are examined; (2) analysis of instructional goals, in which the…

Reviews research and informal experimentation on the use of the cloze procedure as an instructional tool to teach use of context. (MKM)

The cloze test has been used to measure reading comprehension, but it is equally appropriate for use as a teaching tool to improve comprehension skills. Teachers may adapt passages to specific students, purposes, content areas, vocabulary or concepts, as long as the words in the passage are part of the child's spoken vocabulary. The pattern of…

Discusses a five-week summer reading program for 44 "high risk" children who had completed the first through the fifth grades in which cloze was used as the culminating language arts activity. (JM)

Examines two concerns teachers have expressed over the cloze procedure--that of student frustration and of the impulsive child who does not complete the exercise. (HOD)

Presents four techniques, based on two philosophical premises, that are designed to extend readers' responses to literature: (1) literary sociogram, (2) semantic webs, (3) plot profile, and (4) Burgess summaries. (RBW)

The cloze technique can be used to help word-by-word readers acquire more mature reading strategies. This article provides suggestions for creating and using cloze exercises which vary in difficulty and focus. Recommendations are made for introducing and directing cloze training. Sample exercises are given. (Author/PJM)