Letter Deletion Procedure: A Flexible Way of Reducing Text Redundancy.

Kokkota, V.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Letter Deletion Procedure: A Flexible Way of Reducing Text Redundancy.

Kokkota, V.

Language Testing, v5 n1 p115-119 Jun 1988

Studies the application of the letter-deletion procedure (LDP), which matches the advantages of both rational deletion and C-Tests and avoids their disadvantages to English-as-a-Second-Language tests. LDP flexibly reduces redundancy in a text by deleting letters in item words according to specified principles. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools, Language Tests, Test Construction, Test Format

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Identifiers - Location: USSR

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