[etni] origin of cloze testing
- From: Ruth Sheffer <ruti044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:21:47 +0200
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Cloze testing was first introduced by W.L. Taylor (1953), who
developed it as a reading test for native speakers. He defined the
term "cloze" from a gestalt concept which teaches that an
individual will be able to complete a task only after its pattern has
been discerned:
A cloze unit may be defined as: any single occurrence of a
successful attempt to reproduce accurately a part deleted from a
'message' (any language product), by deciding from the context
that remains, what the missing part should be (p. 416).
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