THE EFFECT OF VARYING N IN CLOZE PROCEDURE

For assessment of overall proficiency of English language among the students of English language as second language learners the researcher had constructed Cloze Procedure test on a passage consisting of 868 words based on text book of English Prose and administered it on two groups of students at two different levels, one at an undergraduate level and another at a postgraduate level. At the undergraduate level 48 second year university undergraduate students doing a compulsory course in general English drawn from commerce faculty at Kamala College, Kolhapur (India) were selected. At post graduate level also 48 students doing their first year post graduation in English from Shivaji University, Kolhapur (India) were selected Both the groups consisted of male and female subjects with the mean age of 19.18±1.45 year and 22.29±0.89 year for undergraduate and post graduate students respectively. Four different tests were prepared deleting different number of words i.e. fifth, seventh, ninth & eleventh respectively and were given to both the groups. The results of the study showed that both the groups revealed almost the same results irrespective of the varying number of deleted words from Cloze Procedure.