Learners' Guide on Handling a Cloze Test Passage with Examples
Cloze Test
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Learners' Guide on Handling a Cloze Test Passage with Examples
Learners ought to
know that the Cloze Test Passage: Cloze Test Passage tests the candidate’s exposure to English: does he or
she know how English strings itself together to grammatically communicate an
idea or ideas? Cloze Test Passage is about exposure to the language. Learners must have a
good ‘amount’ of English in them to manage correct responses in cloze passages. Cloze Test Passage is usually topical; don’t be surprised to find cloze
passages on Covid-19 ‘trending’. Cloze Test Passage tests one’s understanding of: • words
classes (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.) • collocations
(e.g. We look forward to something, not * for something,
hardly…when, not hardly…than) • rules,
e.g. capitalization within sentences is only for proper nouns and the personal
pronoun ‘I’, sentences begin with capital letters e.t.c. The learners ought to do the following while tackling a Cloze Test Passage. Read the whole passage
from the beginning to the end before attempting to fill in any
of the gaps. This …
