Cloze test and C-test are reading comprehension tests that assess a test-taker's ability to understand text with missing words. In a cloze test, words are deleted from a passage at regular intervals, usually every 5th-8th word. In a C-test, the second half of every second word in a passage is deleted. Both tests are easy to construct and score but a C-test has lower face validity due to more blanks. While cloze tests leave the first sentence intact, C-tests delete words throughout the entire passage.

1. Cloze Test
&
C-Test

3. The Meaning of Cloze test
Cloze test is a test of the ability to comprehend
text in which the reader has to supply the missing
words that have been removed from the text at
regular intervals

4. The Characteristic of Cloze test
• Cloze test items consist of words that are
deleted from a text after allowing a few
sentences of introduction.
• The deletion rate is mechanically set, usually
between every 5th and 8th.
• Candidates have to fill each gap by supplying
the words they think has been deleted

5. • Easy to construct and easy to score if the
exact-word scoring method is applied.
• With the 5th word deletion, a large number of
items can be taken on a relatively a short text
• It is claimed as a valid measure for reading
comprehension test.
The Advantages of Cloze Test

6. It is difficult to determine
whether a certain word is
appropriate to the text or not,
so that is takes a long time to
check.
The Disadvantages of
Cloze Test

7. The Example of Cloze Test

10. The Definition of C-Test
• The C-test is an adaptation of the cloze technique
that has been developed by Christinee Klein-Braley
and Ulrich Raatz in 1983.
• Weir (1990:49) claims that C-test is based on the
same theoretical rationale as cloze.
• In C-test, “the rule of two” has been applied: the
second half of every second word has been deleted,
beginning with the second word of the second
sentence; the first and last sentences are left intact.

11. • In C-test, a variety of texts are
recommended. A short text can be formed a
large numbers of items.
• The correction of the task can be objectively
scored as it is rare to have more than one
answer.
• The results are encouraging in terms of
reliability and validity.

12. The Disadvantages of C-Test
• The face validity is low because there are
many blanks.
• If the isolated words are difficult, the test
takers concentrate their mind in guessing
the vocabulary instead of comprehending
the text.

13. The Example of C-Test

15. The differences between Cloze
test and C-test
In cloze test, the first sentence is left intact
without any blanks. The fixed deletion cloze is a
cloze passage where every nTH word in the
passage is deleted. In the cloze passage above,
n=5 means that every fifth word after the first
sentence is deleted.

17. C-test also involve mechanical deletion but
it is every second word which is mutilated. Half
of each mutilated word remains in the texts in
order to give the candidate a clue as to what is
missing. If the whole word has an even number
of letters, then exactly half are missing. For
example, to = t_ .While for uneven number of
letters, one more than half are missing. For
instance, the = t_ _ .

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