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cloze

cloze

9.9
An exercise with missing words that learners fill in using context
  • adjective
  • /kloʊz/
  • Specialized
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  • In our English class, we completed a cloze test by filling in the missing words in a passage.

Examples

  • Interactive support occurred through expectant pauses, requests for imitation, inferential and factual questions, response expansions, and cloze utterances.

    Academic text (2014)

  • A challenging exercise, especially in mathematics, and one that can help a teacher evaluate his or her students' facility with mathematical language is the CLOZE procedure, which works in the following way:

    Academic text (1998)

  • Cloze Test

    Academic text (1997)

  • The teacher used a cloze exercise to help students improve their reading comprehension skills.

  • The lesson included a cloze activity where students had to identify the correct words based on context.

Compounds

cloze procedure
  • Specialized
7.5

A test where words are removed and you fill in the blanks to check reading or teach computers to read

cloze test
  • Specialized
6.1

A reading test where words are removed and the reader fills the blanks

cloze test
  • Specialized
7.4

A task where a computer model predicts missing words in a text

Surface Forms

cloze positive

Etymology

The word cloze comes from the idea of closure, which means 'to close' or 'to make complete'. So a cloze test asks you to 'close the gaps' in a text by filling in missing words, and that is why it measures how well you understand the context.