[etni] Re: cloze
- From: "Maxine" <maxine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <nirenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <judywcil@xxxxxxxxx>, <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:36:03 +0200
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I can second that. When I was studying for my Masters degree in the States
in the late 70's, one of my professors was John Oller, who'd made a name for
himself in EFL testing and was a very enthusiastic proponent of the cloze as
an INTEGRATIVE test of language skills as opposed to discrete-point tests
i.e. grammar, vocabulary. He'd been advocating cloze testing from the
early '70s, and he was almost a fanatic in his belief that it was a much
more reliable way of testing overall language proficiency.
His theories were considered rather radical at the time! In fact, the
cloze passage was used as early as 1953 - with native speakers - to
determine the difficulty level of reading materials. So, no, unlike the
Sypholux (anyone still remember those?) the cloze passage is definitely NOT
an Israeli invention!
Regards, Maxine Tsvaigrach
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From: "Bari Nirenberg" <nirenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:11 AM
Subject: [etni] Re: cloze
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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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