[etni] Re: cloze
- From: "Bari Nirenberg" <nirenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <judywcil@xxxxxxxxx>, <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:11:01 +0200
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No, it definitely wasn't invented here. I first learned about cloze at
Teacher's College in New York.
Bari
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> This may be totally off the wall, but I always thought that the
> word cloze was invented here in Israel. We put in the missing
> elements to create a closed - complete - sentence or paragraph.
> I figured the "z" was an example of the gentle humor we sometimes
> exercise, that created characters like Gad Alon (G-d alone?)
> (esh 7) and O.B. Sitty (this years' Bagrut, in an article about
> what teens eat (obesity?).
>
> Anyway that's what I thought. A few years ago, a Russian teacher
> approached me (I worked in a school where one could do a Bagrut
> in Russian) and asked me to explain what a "cloze" was, since it
> was new to her. I really think that English exams were the first
> place a cloze could be found.
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