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Item Types: Their Effect on the Sensitivity of Multiple-Choice Cloze Tests

open access: yesEnglish Language Teaching, 2018
To evaluate the sensitivity of multiple-choice cloze (MCC) tests that use different types of items—syntactic, semantic, and connective—to assess reading ability, 170 English as a foreign language (EFL) students in a vocational college in Taiwan were recruited.
openaire   +2 more sources

Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract 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
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

A Descriptive Study Between Multiple Choice Test and Cloze Test toward Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement

open access: yes, 2017
Multiple choice test and cloze test have been widely used for measuring reading comprehension since their introduction to the testing world by Taylor in 1953. Despite of the advantages or disadvantages of both tests, this research focused on the students
Farisqa Rahmayani, 231121202
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Training with Forced-Choice Cloze Tasks.

open access: yes, 1982
The cloze procedure has been considered an effective means of providing instructional cues for improving reading comprehension while the reader is engaged in the reading act. However, the research results have been disappointing.
Bissell, Laurice Vandermer
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A Comparative Study Between Multiple Choice and Cloze Test toward Students’ Reading Comprehentionatthe Second Grade Students of SMAN 3 Sinjai [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The result of the data was indicated that There was a significant difference of the students’ in reading comprehension by multiple choice and their reading comprehension on the cloze test as the measure of reading comprehension at second grade students ...
Wahyuningsi, Wahyuningsi
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Innovation Discrete Approach Based on Arabic Language Test Assessment

open access: yesArabiyatuna: Jurnal Bahasa Arab
This article aims to describe the assessment of Arabic language tests, and innovate Arabic language assessment using a discrete approach, in Arabic language books for class VII Madrasah Tsanawiyah published by Department Religion of  Republic Indonesia ...
Eliana Pangestika   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of cognitive processing during cloze and multiple-choice reading tests using brain activation

open access: yes, 2016
This study compares cognitive processing and cerebral activation during a cloze test to a multiple-choice reading test. Data were obtained through an innovative neuroimaging technique (near-infrared spectroscopy, NIRS) and stimulated recall interviews ...
40206941   +13 more
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Validation of the Speeded Cloze-Elide Test as an Overall Measure of Proficiency in English as a Foreign Language

open access: yes, 2018
In this study, the cloze-elide test was developed and administered under time constraints. This research is aimed to examine the validity and reliability of the speeded cloze-elide test and investigate its relationship with reading comprehension, C-Test,
Samaneh Zarei (1973203)   +1 more
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Assessing artificial intelligence literacy in foreign language teachers: a TPACK-based perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Education
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into language education has heightened the need for foreign language (FL) teachers to develop strong artificial intelligence literacy (AIL) to navigate increasingly complex and diverse digital ...
Tailin Ren, Qingfu Li
doaj   +1 more source

Prepping a prep course: a corpus linguistics approach = Criação de um curso preparatório: uma abordagem sob o viés da linguística de corpus

open access: yesBrazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2018
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar e reportar alguns possíveis usos de ferramentas de linguística de corpus em um curso preparatório para um exame internacional, focado em ajudar alunos universitários a usarem corpora para encontrarem e analisarem ...
Boldarine, Amanda Chiarelo
doaj  

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