Cloze Exercise
Language Learning Express, or Lex for short, is a
language learning tool by which you can turn any web page into a cloze
exercise. Lex is a web browser with special features for language
learning. You can use Lex to access authentic web pages for the purpose of
language learning. One of Lex's features is the ability to turn a web page
into a cloze exercise. To learn more about Lex please
visit LearnWare.se.How to use Language Learning Express (Lex) to make a cloze exerciseFirst you navigate to a web page in one of Lex's tab windows. For example,
to the web page used in the snapshot below that contains the lyrics of What A Wonderful
World. Then you mark the words that you want to turn into gaps by
using the right-click menu. With just a few more clicks you can then turn the
marked words into gaps to create a cloze exercise.
The two-step process of first marking the words and then turning them
into gaps is described below.
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1. Marking - the first step to create a cloze exerciseTo mark a word you just right-click on
it and select "Mark" and then select your marking of choice. In this example
several words have already been
marked with "Mark 2" (green) and the word "blessed" is about to be marked
in the same way.
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2. Turn the marked words into gaps to actually create the cloze exerciseWhen you click on the
"Exercise" button on the toolbar of the lower main
window a small popup menu will appear. If you select
"Create Exercise" on that popup menu a Text Exercise Setup window will open in the upper main window
as in the example below.
By checking and unchecking the check marks in that
window you can switch the highlighting of the marked words on and off and you can turn the
marked words into gaps and create a cloze exercise.
3. Run the cloze exerciseAfter you have turned the marks
into gaps you click on the "Start" button to start
the cloze exercise. That will cause the Text Exercise Setup window
to be replaced by a
Scoreboard window as you can see in the snapshot below.
Then you just have to fill in the gaps and for each gap you will get
visual feedback in the Feedback section of the Scoreboard. If you need some help you can get that
from the Aid section and you will naturally get your
score from the Score section. Click here to read more about Feedback, Aid
and Score.
In the cloze exercise below the three first words have been
filled in correctly. The fourth word has been filled in incorrectly. The
program gives feedback and waits for another try.
Please
visit www.LearnWare.se and read
about Text Exercises and Glossary Exercises,
the two types of cloze exercises
that you can create
with Language Learning Express. Please
download Lex 1.4 and try it
out for yourself.
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