The Effects of Syntactic Awareness to L2 Chinese Passage-Level Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study investigated the association between syntactic awareness and L2 Chinese passage-level reading comprehension among 209 Chinese as a second language adult-learners.
Jing Zhou
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MULTIPLE‐CHOICE CLOZE ITEMS AND THE TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE [PDF]
ETS Research Report Series, 1988 ABSTRACTThis study examined the relation of TOEFL® performance to a widely used variant of the cloze procedure–the multiple‐choice (MC) cloze method. A main objective was to determine if categories of MC cloze items could be identified that related differentially to the various parts of the TOEFL.
Charles W Stansfield, John W Oller Jr
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Washback effects of multiple-choice, cloze and metalinguistic tests on EFL students writing
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 The washback effects of different test formats on the writing performance of students have always been of great importance. However, this area of research has not fully touched upon by researchers of second language testing. Despite the importance of the
Danial Shirzadi, Majid Amerian
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Automatic Generation System of Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions and its Evaluation
Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2010 Since English expressions vary according to the genres, it is important for students to study questions that are generated from sentences of the target genre. Although various questions are prepared, it is still not enough to satisfy various genres which
Takuya Goto +4 more
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Applications of lexical information for algorithmically composing multiple-choice cloze items [PDF]
Proceedings of the second workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP - EdAppsNLP 05, 2005 We report experience in applying techniques for natural language processing to algorithmically generating test items for both reading and listening cloze items. We propose a word sense disambiguation-based method for locating sentences in which designated words carry specific senses, and apply a collocation-based method for selecting distractors that ...
Chao-Lin Liu +3 more
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Investigating the Relatedness of Cloze-Elide Test, Multiple-Choice Cloze Test, and C-test as Measures of Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2014 Reading comprehension ability consists of multiple cognitive processes, and cloze tests have long been claimed to measure this ability as a whole. However, since the introduction of cloze test, different varieties of it have been proposed by the testers.
Simin Sattarpour, Parviz Ajideh
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Evaluation Dataset of Multiple-Choice Cloze Items for Vocabulary Training and Testing
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2022 Ralph L Rose, Naho Orita, Ayaka Sugawara
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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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Knowledge-Driven Distractor Generation for Cloze-Style Multiple Choice Questions
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021 In this paper, we propose a novel configurable framework to automatically generate distractive choices for open-domain cloze-style multiple-choice questions. The framework incorporates a general-purpose knowledge base to effectively create a small distractor candidate set, and a feature-rich learning-to-rank model to select distractors that are both ...
Siyu Ren, Kenny Q. Zhu
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The Effects of Immediate and Delayed Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of English Subject-Verb Agreement by EFL Learners [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2023 The timing of corrective feedback (CF) provision has been a controversial issue in SLA research. Despite widespread research, there is still disagreement on whether the erroneous structures should be addressed immediately or at a delayed time after task ...
Yalda Moslemi +2 more
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