Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Lückentest

English translation:

cloze test

Added to glossary by Steffen Walter
Dec 2, 2002 17:07
21 yrs ago
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German term

Lückentest

German to English Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy
Completion test?

A statement is given, where a few words are left out, which the student should fill in.
Proposed translations (English)
5 +2 cloze test
4 +5 yes
4 Lückentest
Change log

Dec 4, 2007 09:25: Steffen Walter changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/11098">Jeannie Graham's</a> old entry - "luckentest"" to ""cloze test""

Dec 4, 2007 09:25: Steffen Walter changed "Term asked" from "luckentest" to "Lückentest" , "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Education / Pedagogy"

Proposed translations

+2
1 min
Selected

cloze test

my suggestion
Peer comment(s):

agree Louise Mawbey
0 min
agree Margaret Marks : The original Cloze test entailed omitting every fifth word of a text. It is quite interesting to see the syntactical problems it throws up. But the term is widely used to mean any kind of Lückentest.
2 hrs
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. I will accept Cloze test because it is more frequently used, but I think "fill-in-the-blanks" might be a very good, informal alternative."
+5
1 min

yes

completion test (supported by Langenscheidt)
or

fill-in-the-blanks test
Peer comment(s):

agree Kaiya J. Diannen : well, I definitely remember from my own school days that the colloquial is "fill-in-the-blanks"!
3 mins
agree jccantrell : In the USA, we would 'fill in the blanks'
13 mins
agree Trudy Peters : fill in the blanks
35 mins
agree Bob Kerns (X) : fill-in-the-blanks test
1 hr
agree jerrie
2 hrs
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10 mins

Lückentest

filling-in-the-blanks; fill-in-the-blanks tests, fill-the-blanks
Peer comment(s):

neutral Bob Kerns (X) : It would help if you would enter your answer rather than the question in the Answer field
1 hr
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