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Working Papers em Linguística, 2014 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de mestrado em que foi avaliada a compreensão de leitura em língua inglesa de 69 mestrandos da área de saúde por meio de um teste cloze de múltipla escolha.
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 322-335, February 2026.ABSTRACT Most research into the relationships of linguistic complexity and accuracy to functional adequacy has focused on either spoken or written mode. The current study extended previous studies by investigating these associations across both modalities and how the nature of these relationships was influenced by learners’ L2 proficiency and task type.
Xiaojun Lu, Yui Suzukida
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English as a Heritage Language in Japan: Writing Development From Late Childhood to Adolescence
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.Bilingual children and adolescents can develop strong writing skills in their heritage language. In a three‐year study of Japanese–English bilinguals in Japan, English writing scores matched or exceeded those of same‐age U.S. peers and improved each year. Writing development was supported by both home literacy practices and weekend schools.
Janice Nakamura, Suzanne Quay
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Beto, Bentz, Becas: The Surprising Cross-Lingual Effectiveness of BERT
, 2019 Pretrained contextual representation models (Peters et al., 2018; Devlin et al., 2018) have pushed forward the state-of-the-art on many NLP tasks. A new release of BERT (Devlin, 2018) includes a model simultaneously pretrained on 104 languages with ...
Dredze, Mark, Wu, Shijie
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Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding speech in background music is a common real‐world challenge, particularly when vocals compete for linguistic processing resources. This study examined how the presence and intelligibility of sung lyrics influence semantic processing in autistic and nonautistic adults.
Jiayin Li +4 more
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EMPREGO DA TÉCNICA CLOZE COMO INSTRUMENTO PARA MELHORAR O DESEMPENHO EM LEITURA
Signo, 2013 Este estudo tem por objetivo mostrar que a técnica cloze pode ser um instrumento eficiente para melhorar o desempenho em leitura de alunos no Ensino Fundamental.
Ana Maria Esteves Bortolanza +1 more
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Can a Suit of Armor Conduct Electricity? A New Dataset for Open Book Question Answering
, 2018 We present a new kind of question answering dataset, OpenBookQA, modeled after open book exams for assessing human understanding of a subject. The open book that comes with our questions is a set of 1329 elementary level science facts.
Clark, Peter +3 more
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Further Exploration of the Fluency Corpus of Academic English Lectures: The Profile of Repetitions
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2326-2341, December 2025.Abstract In assessment contexts, the domain definition inference requires accurate documentation of linguistic demands in a specific target domain for precise measurement. The present study examines several aspects of repetitions in academic lecture settings to offer the domain definition inference for academic listening tests.
Hitoshi Nishizawa
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Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi DergisiThe aim of this study is to examine the relationship between multiple choice tests and cloze tests, and to evaluate the consistency of both test types in determining reading proficiency levels.
Yusuf Aydın, Ezgi Kaya Filik
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Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2012 Este estudo teve por objetivos investigar o ajuste de um Teste de Cloze ao modelo Rasch e avaliar a dificuldade na resposta ao item em razão do gênero das pessoas (DIF).
Katya Luciane Oliveira +3 more
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