Abstract In order to have a better understanding of the nature reading behavior, it is quite essential scrutinize underlying assumptions two competing theories: componential approach and unitary hypothesis see how this reflected on testing skills. As result, current study was aimed at broadening existing knowledge horizon by trying identify if there relationship in overall scores learners diffe...

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This paper discusses the implementation and evaluation of automatically generated cloze questions in the style of the definitions found in Collins COBUILD English language learner’s dictionary. The definitions and the cloze questions are used in an automated reading tutor to help second and third grade students learn new vocabulary. A parser provides syntactic phrase structure trees for the def...

Multiple-choice cloze items constitute a prominent tool for assessing students’ competency in using the vocabulary of a language correctly. Without a proper estimation of students’ competency in using vocabulary, it will be hard for a computer-assisted language learning system to provide course material tailored to each individual student’s needs. Computer-assisted item generation allows the cr...