clozen.
/kləʊz/, U.S. /kloʊz/ Psychology.
Used attributively with reference to a test of readability or comprehension in which a person is required to supply words which have been deliberately omitted from a passage.
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1953 W. L. Taylor in Journalism Q. XXX. 416/1 Cloze procedure may be defined as: A method of intercepting a message from a ‘transmitter’ (writer or speaker), mutilating its language patterns by deleting parts, and so administering it to ‘receivers’ (readers or listeners) that their attempts to make the patterns whole again potentially yield a considerable number of cloze units.
1954 Application of ‘Cloze’ & Entropy Measures 113 Attached behind this page is a Foreword for your use in conducting the cloze test.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating vi. 140 To fulfill this purpose the so-called ‘cloze technique’ is highly useful.
1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) vi. 93 When a cloze test is being prepared the deletions may be random, or they may be confined to certain parts of speech or words which are ‘cued’ in different ways.
1984 Amer. Speech 59 53 Each item contained a stimulus utterance and a response from which the pronoun had been deleted, as in a modified cloze procedure.
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