BRIEF REVIEW OF STUDIES ON THE PROBLEM OF CLOZE TESTING

Abstract

The article presents a brief review of studies on the problem of cloze testing, first suggested by J. Oller, Jr. The results of these studies, frequently contradictive, remain unknown not only to the lecturers-practicians, but also to testologists because of various causes. Getting acquainted with them testifies about their potential for the further development of test measurements in linguodidactics.

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• Published: November 30, 2015.

Keywords

• языковое тестирование
• прагматические тесты
• клоуз-тесты
• история языковой тестологии
• language testing
• pragmatic tests
• cloze tests
• the history of language testology

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