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Cloze validation against IELTS Reading Paper: Doubts on correlational validation | ||
| Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning | ||
| مقاله 6، دوره 2، شماره 217، دی 2010، صفحه 131-154 اصل مقاله (218.18 K) | ||
| نوع مقاله: Research Paper | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| Karim Sadeghi* | ||
| Assistant professor of urmia university | ||
| چکیده | ||
| Cloze was officially introduced in a journal on Journalism as a technique for estimating text readability and as "a new psychological tool for measuring the effectiveness of communication" (Taylor, 1953: 415). Different varieties of cloze have since been developed and experimented upon as measures of such diverse traits as reading comprehension and language proficiency. The findings of numerous corrleational studies on cloze as a measure of either skill is at best unsatisfactory and indeed contradictory. The present study seeks to find an answer to the question of whether standard cloze (with different text difficulty levels) is a valid measure of EFL reading comprehension (with IELTS Reading Paper as the criterion). 76 junior and senior students majoring in English Language and Literature at Urmia University participated in the study, where they sat 3 versions of standard 5-th deletion rate cloze tests as well as the Reading Paper of an Institutional IELTS (UCLES, 1995, 1997). While the results are in accordance with most previous research findings that cloze is a valid measure of EFL reading comprehension, serious problems are identified and discussed on the appropriacy of such a validation technique as correlation. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| cloze test؛ Correlation؛ Validation؛ EFL learners؛ assessing reading | ||
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