试论完型填空的不同形式对测试效果的影响.pdfVIP

The effects of Cloze Deletion on Tests Estimates Acknowledgements I would like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Shu Yunxiang, for his statistical advice, valuable guidance and thoughtful comments at an early stage of constructing the thesis, and his careful readings, patient instructions and timely help throughout the whole process of my thesis-writing. My thanks are extended to all the teachers who taught me during my one-year course study at East China Normal University. Their lectures have enlightened me in English field. I am also grateful to all members of the defense committee for their careful reading of my thesis and offering me the opportunity to defend my thesis. I would like to thank English department of Liaoning Institute of Technology for providing the facilit ies. And I also wish to thank the professionals for their help in administrating the tests in the research. Thanks also go to all the students who participated in my research. Finally, I should thank all those who have offered help and support in the whole process of my research and writing. 3 The effects of Cloze Deletion on Tests Estimates Abstract The cloze test has received considerable attention in recent years from testers and teachers of English as a foreign language, and is becoming more widely used in language tests, both in the classroom and in standardized tests. However, the results have indeed been widely varied across studies when some researchers investigated the effectiveness of cloze testing as a measure of ESL/EFL pro