Making Cloze Tests Using Perl Programs

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Making Cloze Tests Using Perl Programs

• Kenji Kitao
• http//kkitao.e-learning-server.com/index.shtml
• Tomonori Nagano

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Cloze Test

• very useful exercises for
• Reading
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• listening

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Making Cloze Test

• make each n-th word blank
• time consuming
• to make blanks
• To keep a record of correct answers for each blank

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• make blanks of only words
• of a certain level of difficulty
• of only certain parts of speech
• not easy

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Perl

• developed Perl programs to make
• every n-th word blank
• m-th letter of the n-th word blank for exercises.
  
• This program can also be used to make blanks of
  only words
• of a certain level of difficulty (based on the
  JACET8000 word list)
• of certain parts of speech
• by specifying n, m, the level of difficulty
  (Levels 1-8), or the parts of speech at the top
  of some of the programs.

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available on the Internet

• These programs, sample texts and cloze exercises
  made from those sample texts are
  http//www.cis.doshisha.ac.jp/kkitao/Japanese/libr
  ary/resource/corpus/perl/ELT/e.htm
• welcome to download the programs
• Possible to alter these programs

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Cloze Test on WEB

• http//kkitao.e-learning-server.com/javaS/blank/cl
  oze/index.html

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Making Cloze Tests

• http//www.slacorpus.com/programs/ctest.html

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