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Meaning of "cloze test" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLOZE TEST

Altered from close to complete a pattern (in Gestalt theory).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CLOZE TEST

cloze test  [kləʊz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOZE TEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cloze test is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLOZE TEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cloze test

A cloze test is an exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed, where the participant is asked to replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct words or type of words that belong in the deleted passages of a text. This exercise is commonly administered for the assessment of native and second language learning and instruction. The word cloze is derived from closure in Gestalt theory. The exercise was first described by W.L. Taylor in 1953.

Definition of cloze test in the English dictionary

The definition of cloze test in the dictionary is a test of the ability to comprehend text in which the reader has to supply the missing words that have been removed from the text at regular intervals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLOZE TEST


Allhallows
ˌɔːlˈhæləʊz
aloes
ˈæləʊz
alpha-cellulose
ˌælfəˈsɛljʊˌləʊz
amylose
ˈæmɪˌləʊz
bellows
ˈbɛləʊz
cellulose
ˈsɛljʊˌləʊz
chloralose
ˈklɔːrələʊz
disclose
dɪsˈkləʊz
eclose
ɪˈkləʊz
enclose
ɪnˈkləʊz
foreclose
fɔːˈkləʊz
gallows
ˈɡæləʊz
hemicellulose
ˌhɛmɪˈsɛljʊˌləʊz
pilose
ˈpaɪləʊz
reclose
riːˈkləʊz
shallows
ˈʃæləʊz
upclose
ʌpˈkləʊz
xylose
ˈzaɪləʊz
yellows
ˈjɛləʊz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLOZE TEST

clovis point
clow
clowder
clown
clownery
clownfish
clowning
clownish
clownishly
clownishness
cloxacillin
cloy
cloye
cloying
cloyingly
cloyless
cloyment
cloysome
clozapine
club

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLOZE TEST

aptitude test
at the latest
blind test
blood test
crash test
DNA test
driving test
drug test
endurance test
field test
flight test
means test
patch test
performance test
practice test
pregnancy test
road test
scratch test
screening test
stress test
Turing test

Synonyms and antonyms of cloze test in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cloze test» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLOZE TEST

Find out the translation of cloze test to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cloze test from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cloze test» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

完形填空
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prueba cloze
570 millions of speakers

English

cloze test
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cloze परीक्षण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اختبار كلوزي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тест Cloze
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

teste cloze
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লোজ টেস্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

test de closure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ujian celing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lückentext
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

穴埋めテスト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cloze 테스트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cloze test
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiểm tra Cloze
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துணி சோதனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लोज चाचणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boşluk doldurma testi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cloze test
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Test Cloze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тест Cloze
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Test cloze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δοκιμή cloze
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cloze -toets
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cloze testet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cloze test
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cloze test

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOZE TEST»

The term «cloze test» is normally little used and occupies the 121.218 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLOZE TEST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cloze test» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cloze test» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cloze test

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOZE TEST»

Discover the use of cloze test in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cloze test and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cloze and Coherence
While Bachman's research does not suggest that any cloze test will provide this information [C] (in fact one of his primary conclusions is that cloze items should be chosen on a rational rather than a fixed interval or random basis), it does show ...
Jon Jonz, 1994
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Language Test Construction and Evaluation
What is clear, however, is that different cloze tests measure different things, that is , a test produced by the application of the cloze technique to a text may or may not measure the same thing as a different cloze test on the very same text.
J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham, 1995
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Essays in English Language Teaching: A Review of the ...
-the grammar test -the cloze test -the dictation test (see Table 1 in the Appendix, for description of results in this and the above mentioned tests) -the written compositions (see Celaya et al. 1998, for description of results in 16 measures) 2.
Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo, 1999
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English Article Usage in Online Graduate Forums by ...
Question Numbers in the Cloze Test Sorted by the Semantic Types 92 Table 5.2. NS Participants' Answers on the Cloze Test 93 Table 5.3. Questions on the Cloze Test except for the 13 Disagreed Questions 95 Table 5.4. All NNS Participants' ...
Eun-Hee Lee, 2007
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Language and Bilingualism: More Tests of Tests
... TABLE 7.1 Means, Standard Deviations, and KR-21 Reliabilities for the English Comprehension Level, a Multiple Choice Cloze Test, a Standard Cloze Test, and the Test of Non-Verbal Reasoning, N = 72 89 TABLE 7.2 Correlations between ...
John W. Oller, Steve Chesarek, Robert Scott, 1991
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Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction: An Application ...
The (1) coal fires. Most pollution is caused by the (2) from thing. (5) (4) (3) Administering the Cloze Test If your students are not familiar with cloze, you can provide them with two to five practice sentences. Directions to the students should ...
Arleen Shearer Mariotti, Susan P. Homan, 2012
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Routledge Enyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
In its original form, a cloze test consists of a single passage of (authentic) prose in which, after a short unmutilated lead-in, every nth word (n being usually a number between 5 and 10) is deleted leaving blanks. The candidate is requested to ...
Michael Byram, Adelheid Hu, 2013
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Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
cloze test are often achieved through an exchange of three or more moves, they are often preceded by pre-closings, such as anyway, I have to go now, or Look at the time and often involve standard formulaic expressions. see also ...
Jack. C. Richards, Richard W. Schmidt, 2013
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Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning
Group was also a highly significant factor (p < 0.001) for the dictation and the cloze test, but only marginally significant for the listening comprehension test (p = 0.025).5 Pair-wise comparisons show significant differences in favour of the older  ...
Carmen Muñoz, 2006
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Nurse as Educator
The two most popular standardized methods to measure comprehension of written materials are the cloze test and the listening test. These tests can be used to assess how much someone understands from reading or listening to a passage of ...
Chair and Professor Department of Nursing Le Moyne College Susan Bastable, Susan B. Bastable, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOZE TEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cloze test is used in the context of the following news items.
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SBI PO Pre Exam 2015 June 27th Paper Analysis
English Comprehension: Questions appeared from fill ups, comprehension test, cloze test, sentence arrangements, error. Questions levels: ... «FitnHit.com, Jun 15»
2
Leaving Cert French: Homelessness and terrorism among topics on …
“As for the written sections, they had to answer two out of six questions, including a short CV, a cloze test [a fill-in-the-gaps exercise], a postcard, ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
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English Quiz on Fill in the blank & Cloze Test for Upcoming Exams
We are providing you a quiz on Fill in the blank and Cloze test topic which help you in your preparation. Please try to give answers in the ... «PaGaLGuY, May 15»
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SBI PO Exam 2015: New Exam Pattern demands New Preparation …
It includes Reading Comprehension, Spotting Error, Fill in the blanks, Cloze test and Para-Jumbles. You can prepare for this section in both the ... «PrepSure, May 15»
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Last Minute Tips & Exam Strategy for BOB Manipal PO Exam 2015
You can start the English section with: Fill in the Blanks, Cloze Test, Spotting Error in Sentence and Para-jumbles. For Reading comprehension: ... «PaGaLGuY, Apr 15»
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English Language: Quiz on Fill in the blanks & Cloze Test for BOB …
The quiz on fill in the blanks and cloze test, provided here, will help you prepare for the upcoming exams. Please try to give answers in the ... «PaGaLGuY, Apr 15»
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sonuc.osym.gov.tr ÖSYM YDS 2015 sınav sonuçları
5) Phrasal Verbs soruları da tanıdık ve sağlam phrasal verblerin dışında idi, ayrıca cloze test dahil 3 tane soruldu. 6) Tense soruları kesinlikte ... «Haber7.com, Apr 15»
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English Quiz on Cloze Test for BOB Exam
In Cloze Test, generally a passage is provided with 10 or 12 spaces and these types of questions are asked to judge the candidates vocabulary ... «PaGaLGuY, Apr 15»
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English Quiz on Cloze Test - III
In Banking, Insurance, SSC and UPSC examinations, English Language section cover a range of topics like Fill in the blank, Cloze test, ... «PaGaLGuY, Mar 15»
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English Quiz on Parajumbles- I
In competitive examinations, English Language section cover a range of topics like Fill in the blank, Cloze test, Spotting error, Parajumbles, etc. «PaGaLGuY, Mar 15»

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