Results 31 to 40 of about 3,009 (102)

The Alternatives in Language Assessment: Advantages and Disadvantages [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Language testing is different from testing in other content areas because language teachers have more choices to make than teachers of other subject matter.
Brown, James Dean, Hudson, Thom
core  

Parsing Ability and Reading Comprehension in a Second Language: Are the Two Related? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Many studies of reading comprehension have dealt with how a text's syntax and semantics interfere with or assist the reader in getting meaning. These effects have typically been observed in the product of the reading process, reading comprehension ...
Day, Dennis
core  

Project-Based Learning Approach in Teaching Semantics: The Creation of Arabic Thematic Dictionaries [PDF]

open access: yes
Purpose – This study aims to identify and analyze the implementation of project-based learning in teaching semantics through the creation of Arabic thematic dictionaries at UIN Imam Bonjol Padang. The research seeks to explore how this method contributes
Febriani, Suci Ramadhanti   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Advances in statistical script learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
When humans encode information into natural language, they do so with the clear assumption that the reader will be able to seamlessly make inferences based on world knowledge. For example, given the sentence ``Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers
Pichotta, Karl
core   +1 more source

Gaining a deeper understanding of the deep cloze reading comprehension test: examining potential contributors and consequences

open access: yesReading & Writing
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221–1237, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w) to assess reading comprehension at the level of global situational understanding. In two independent studies,
Ivar Bråten   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploration of vocational high school students experiencing difficulty in cloze test performances: a mixed-methods study in Taiwan

open access: yesLanguage Testing in Asia
This study addressed a gap in existing research on Multiple-Choice (MC) cloze tests by focusing on the learners’ perspective, specifically examining the difficulties faced by vocational high school students (VHSs).
Kou-Zheng Feng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Study of Cloze Test in TEM-4 from the Perspective of Cohesion Theory

open access: yesInternational Journal of Languages Literature and Linguistics
Cloze test has now become one of the core questions in various language tests. In Test for English Majors-Band 4 (TEM-4), cloze test accounts for 10% of the total score.
Wan Liu, Yi Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
The Story Cloze Test (SCT) is a recent framework for evaluating story comprehension and script learning. There have been a variety of models tackling the SCT so far.
Rishi Sharma   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Augmenting efl vocabulary learning and reading comprehension through mobile phone-based vocabulary learning tasks and computer-based reading activites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
EFL reading is a crucial input that is central to one’s academic progress, work environment, and social interactions. EFL reading is a complex process because there are many factors that play their part in successful reading experience. EFL vocabulary is
Imtiaz, Hassan Taj
core  

LSDSem 2017 Shared Task: The Story Cloze Test

open access: yesLSDSem@EACL, 2017
The LSDSem’17 shared task is the Story Cloze Test, a new evaluation for story understanding and script learning. This test provides a system with a four-sentence story and two possible endings, and the system must choose the correct ending to the story ...
N. Mostafazadeh   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy