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Method Bias in Cloze Tests as Reading Comprehension Measures
SAGE Open, 2019 In many reading comprehension tests, different test formats are employed. Two commonly used test formats to measure reading comprehension are sustained passages followed by some questions and cloze items.
Purya Baghaei, Hamdollah Ravand
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Cassani G, Colombo M.
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Chinese Readers Process Word Class of Parafoveal Words During Sentence Reading. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract The present study aimed to investigate the parafoveal processing of word class in Chinese reading, focusing on how grammatical category consistency affects word recognition. The gaze‐contingent boundary paradigm was adopted in an eye‐tracking study. In each sentence, a parafoveal target word was replaced with three types of previews: identical
Qi Z, Xi Y, Pan J.
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A shift in cloze procedure usage: A new tool for activating ZPD
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 Of significant challenges encountered in the field of Foreign Language Acquisition (FLA) is finding efficient procedures to make learning more promising, and at the same time, independent.
Parviz Ajideh +2 more
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Effects of Different Response Types on Iranian EFL Test Takers’ Performance [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 Test method facet is one of the factors which can have an influence on the test takers’ performance. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of two different response types, multiple-choice cloze and multiple-choice test, on the ...
Mohammad Hassan Chehrazad, Parviz Ajideh
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Cloze Testing as an Alternative to the Conventional Exam in E.B.E.
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1993 Much research has been done on cloze tests. Whereas most of the literature is based on General English in this study English for Business and Economics (EBE) is going to be the point of reference.
Honesto Herrera Soler
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Psicologia em Estudo, 2004 Este trabalho avaliou a compreensão em leitura de universitários e sua relação com o desempenho na prova de língua portuguesa no vestibular e o rendimento médio no primeiro ano.
Maria José Moraes da Silva +1 more
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Evaluating four readability formulas for Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 For almost a hundred years now, readability formulas have been used to measure how difficult it is to comprehend a given text. To date, four readability formulas have been developed for Afrikaans.
Jansen, Carel +2 more
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Predictability's aftermath: Downstream consequences of word predictability as revealed by repetition effects [PDF]
, 2018 Stimulus processing in language and beyond is shaped by context, with predictability having a particularly well-attested influence on the rapid processes that unfold during the presentation of a word.
Federmeier, K., Rommers, J.
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Developing a Cloze Procedure as a Reading Comprehension Achievement Test
TEFLIN Journal, 2004 The project was concerned with developing a cloze procedure as a reading comprehension achievement test. The subjects were students of the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang, who were halfway in the semester to ...
I Ketut Seken
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