cloze
An exercise consisting of one or more paragraphs of text with selected words omitted. The learner's task is to complete each sentence by selecting the most appropriate word for each gap.
Example:
The ________-program concept was introduced by mathematician John von ______________ in the late _____.
When creating your own cloze exercises, you can choose to remove every nth word from a sentence, or select the words to omit yourself depending on the learning objective (i.e. whether the exercise is testing factual knowledge or a learner's vocabulary).
A cloze activity can provide learners with a list of words to choose from, or require the learner to choose suitable words for themselves. When providing a list of terms to use, the correct answers to cloze activities can be made more difficult to guess by listing all words in lower case (so that a sentence's grammar cannot aid the correct selection), and by listing more words than gaps, mixing incorrect answers with the correct responses.
