Standard cloze: testing receptive and productive skills of language learners in context

Testing has always remained at the core of the language learning because it helps decide the level of the learners. Language Testing has witnessed very significant developments in recent years. This has, in turn, led to a major reconsideration of the way language tests are designed, written, analyzed, administered, scored, and used. World testing bodies, therefore, constantly strive to keep up with such developments so that they can offer more reliable and effective examinations. Wilson Taylor’s cloze test is one such work on the testing of reading ability of the target group. The following paper is the upshot of a standard cloze test given to a heterogonous group as a reading comprehension exercise.