An Inventory of Successful and Unsuccessful Strategies of Pre-Final Engineering Students Tackling a Cloze Test
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PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore ,IN
R. Kalpana
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh/2014/v1i2/61711Keywords:
Appropriate and Inappropriate Language Learning Strategies, Cloze Test.Abstract
The present study is aimed at studying the various strategies used by engineering students attempting a cloze test. A narrative text with 100 blanks was administered to a group of 52 prefinal engineering students. The students were given one-hour time to complete the task. Following the test, a group of students was selected at random and interviewed, and all the interviews were recorded. Select strategies used by the high scorers and low scorers have been identified, classified as appropriate and inappropriate and presented.
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