Steve, Thanks a lot. You're a treasure trove of resources.
Bonnie

--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Steve Kaufmann <steve at thelinguist.com> wrote:

From: Steve Kaufmann <steve at thelinguist.com>
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2570] Re: Where does the reading problem go?
To: "The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List" <professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1:25 PM



It would be a matter of creating a cloze test for the computer which is not difficult to do. We had one in our old system and will create one again when we have the time. Each cloze test should be based on a specific predetermined list of words. The lists used could be different frequency level lists,( the first 1000, the second 1000 etc.), or the Academic Word List, or words that often appear on TOEIC or TOEFL, or the words that learner claims to know ( something that we measure on our site).

You can look at Word Level tests and sample cloze tests at the Compleat Lexical Tutor website put out by Tom Cobb at the University of Montreal. It is a free and interesting resource.

http://www.lextutor.ca/

Steve


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