Cloze test application to the students
Cloze test is a kind of incomplete reading or sentence tests. It is so difficult to do for students who don’t have any capability or poor vocabulary. In the test, testees are demanded to comprehend the use of vocabulary correctly. For low level students, cloze test makes them boring because they must open dictionary very often. That is why, most of students in one class got bad mark.
In this writing, a writer tries to show you the form of the cloze test that writer took from a teacher hand book entitle “ Building Blocks English Competency for year VII SMP/MTs written by Ignasia M.H et al.
Test one: Complete the passage with the appropriate word!
Last week, Dewi (1)..... how to cook rice she ...cooking was not very difficult. So, she (2)... try to some other meals. Yesterday, when she was standing in the living room, she (3)... some interesting books on the shelf. One of them was a cooking. “wow”, she (4) ... to herself. Now I can learn how to cook with this book. The cooking book (5).. a lot of receipes and instructions on how to cook various meals
From the test given above, the teacher gets more information of students test result. Almost seventy five percent students fail to to the test. So teacher tries to ask students’ problems. From the students’ opinion, they say that they found many difficulties to select a word that better used, they take the word from the dictionary and use it directly to the passage
As a teaacher, I try to think and apply a way that support me to overcome the problem. I try to help them with the second test or remedial
Test two: Complete the passage with the one of the words below!
a. Wanted
b. Said
c. Thought
d. Learned
e. Contanied
f. Found
Last week, Dewi (1)..... how to cook rice she ...cooking was not very difficult. So, she (2)... try to some other meals. Yesterday, when she was standing in the living room, she (3)... some interesting books on the shelf. One of them was a cooking. “wow”, she (4) ... to herself. Now I can learn how to cook with this book. The cooking book (5).. a lot of receipes and instructions on how to cook various meals
From the test given above, the teacher scores shows that the students test result is better than test one. Students can save their time efisiently. They need less works while doing the test because there are words choice to complete the passage.
The way that I do may be the one of thousand ways strategy in teaching and doing cloze test. It is useful for my special characteristic students. But is may be useless for the other school. Therefore, the application of teaching way should be considered before bring it into your students.
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