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Download full textLowry, Dennis T.; Marr, Theodore J. – 1974
Clozentropy procedure is a method whereby researchers pretest messages to determine their levels of comprehensibility among given audience members. It is often used to measure the English language proficiency of foreign students. The procedure utilizes a passage of prose from which words are deleted on either a random or systematic basis and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies
Olsson, Margareta – 1972
This experiment continues the GUME experiments investigating methods for teaching English to Swedish school pupils. The aims of this particular study are twofold: (1) to analyze and classify the errors made by Swedish pupils in an oral English test in an effort to establish error patterns; and (2) to describe how the twelve most frequent errors in…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
