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This was done by giving cloze test passages to 40 foreign graduate technical students in engineering and to another 40 graduate non-technical students in non-technical fields studying at an American university. Each student completed two cloze tests, one based on a non-technical general reading passage, the other based on a scientific technical reading passage. Either content or functor words were deleted and each test was scored using three different scoring criteria (exact word, synonym, and acceptable word scoring criteria).","The findings indicated (a) a general superiority of the technical students over the non-technical ones, particularly on the technical passages; (b) that the functor word deleted cloze tests were almost always significantly easier than the content word deleted tests; and (c) that scores were lowest using the exact word scoring criterion, higher using the synonym scoring criterion, and highest using the acceptable word scoring criterion. Also, interactions involving the factors of background knowledge, type of passage, cloze item type, and scoring method indicated that a cloze test using the exact word scoring criterion is likely to be most sensitive to students' background knowledge while cloze tests using the synonym or acceptable word scoring criteria are less sensitive to this and instead appear to be measures of more general aspects of English proficiency.","The implications of these findings for understanding the development of second language reading skills and for testing these skills using the cloze procedure are discussed.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T18:49:30Z (GMT). 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This was done by giving cloze test passages to 40 foreign graduate technical students in engineering and to another 40 graduate non-technical students in non-technical fields studying at an American university. Each student completed two cloze tests, one based on a non-technical general reading passage, the other based on a scientific technical reading passage. Either content or functor words were deleted and each test was scored using three different scoring criteria (exact word, synonym, and acceptable word scoring criteria).","The findings indicated (a) a general superiority of the technical students over the non-technical ones, particularly on the technical passages; (b) that the functor word deleted cloze tests were almost always significantly easier than the content word deleted tests; and (c) that scores were lowest using the exact word scoring criterion, higher using the synonym scoring criterion, and highest using the acceptable word scoring criterion. Also, interactions involving the factors of background knowledge, type of passage, cloze item type, and scoring method indicated that a cloze test using the exact word scoring criterion is likely to be most sensitive to students' background knowledge while cloze tests using the synonym or acceptable word scoring criteria are less sensitive to this and instead appear to be measures of more general aspects of English proficiency.","The implications of these findings for understanding the development of second language reading skills and for testing these skills using the cloze procedure are discussed.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T18:49:30Z (GMT). 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