cloze

English

Etymology

From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kləʊz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kloʊz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: close, clothes (when the /ð/ is omitted)

Noun

cloze (plural clozes)

1. (education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.
   • 1994, Joseph Boyle, Peter Falvey, English Language Testing in Hong Kong, page 8:

     The clozes, at least those used in the examinations, have the distinct advantage that they expose the students to continuous and reasonably authentic text […]

   • 2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, in German Language Blog‎^[1], retrieved 2013-03-15:

     this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完形填空 (wánxíng tiánkòng)

• Czech: doplňovací test
• Finnish: täydennystehtävä (question), täydennyskoe (examination)
• French: texte à trous (fr) m
• German: Lückentexttest m, Lückentest m
• Romanian: text cu lacune n

Further reading

• Cloze test on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• zocle