A META-ANALYSIS OF SECOND LANGUAGE CLOZE TESTING RESEARCH
Yukiko Watanabe, Dennis Koyama · ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) · 2008
Cloze procedure first appeared in 1953 when Wilson Taylor researched its effectiveness as a procedure for estimating the readability of textbooks for school children in the United States. A decade later, research began to appear on the usefulness of cloze for testing the reading