Jon Jonz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1691819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Jonz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonz |
| SIGNATURE | JONZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cloze item types and second language comprehension
This paper describes the further analysis of one portion of the data reported in Jonz (1989). Four 50-item fixed-ratio cloze tests were administered to 238 nonnative university freshman. Half of the subjects were randomly assigned to take the cloze tests in their naturally occurring order; the other half of the subjects were randomly assigned to take the tests after the original sequence of the sentences in the passage had been thoroughly scrambl…
Textual Sequence and Second-Language Comprehension
This paper reports research into the interactive roles played in verbal comprehension processes by the sequence of textual elements, text-specific prior knowledge, and levels of language proficiency. Four cloze tests were administered to undergraduate (n=246) and graduate (n=240) native speakers of English and to undergraduate nonnative (n=238) speakers at three universities in northeast Texas. One test passage was a set of descriptive facts with…
Textual Cohesion and Second-Language Comprehension
Two cloze tests were administered to native (n=199) and nonnative (n = 230) speakers of English at three universities in northeastern Texas. One test was based on an analysis of the lexical and referential cohesion in the passage while the other was a standard fixed-ratio test. Prior to the administration of the tests, half the subjects were allowed to read the whole text from which the cloze tests were derived. Nonnative scores on the fixed-rati…
The Ethnography of Communication
Measuring Values in Multilingual Settings
Improving on the Basic Egg
An open-ended cloze procedure was modified by item-analytical and error-analytical techniques. A short (33 items) multiple-choice (M-C) test was the result of that modification. The new test was administered as an experimental adjunct to an established placement examination at a large university in the eastern United States. The M-C cloze took less than twenty minutes to administer and score, yet rivaled the placement accurary of the much longer …
Textual Sequence and Second-Language Comprehension
This paper reports research into the interactive roles played in verbal comprehension processes by the sequence of textual elements, text-specific prior knowledge, and levels of language proficiency. Four cloze tests were administered to undergraduate (n=246) and graduate (n=240) native speakers of English and to undergraduate nonnative (n=238) speakers at three universities in northeast Texas. One test passage was a set of descriptive facts with…
Textual Cohesion and Second-Language Comprehension
Two cloze tests were administered to native (n=199) and nonnative (n = 230) speakers of English at three universities in northeastern Texas. One test was based on an analysis of the lexical and referential cohesion in the passage while the other was a standard fixed-ratio test. Prior to the administration of the tests, half the subjects were allowed to read the whole text from which the cloze tests were derived. Nonnative scores on the fixed-rati…
Improving on the Basic Egg
An open-ended cloze procedure was modified by item-analytical and error-analytical techniques. A short (33 items) multiple-choice (M-C) test was the result of that modification. The new test was administered as an experimental adjunct to an established placement examination at a large university in the eastern United States. The M-C cloze took less than twenty minutes to administer and score, yet rivaled the placement accurary of the much longer …
Measuring Values in Multilingual Settings
Improving on the Basic Egg
An open-ended cloze procedure was modified by item-analytical and error-analytical techniques. A short (33 items) multiple-choice (M-C) test was the result of that modification. The new test was administered as an experimental adjunct to an established placement examination at a large university in the eastern United States. The M-C cloze took less than twenty minutes to administer and score, yet rivaled the placement accurary of the much longer …
The Ethnography of Communication
Textual Cohesion and Second-Language Comprehension
Two cloze tests were administered to native (n=199) and nonnative (n = 230) speakers of English at three universities in northeastern Texas. One test was based on an analysis of the lexical and referential cohesion in the passage while the other was a standard fixed-ratio test. Prior to the administration of the tests, half the subjects were allowed to read the whole text from which the cloze tests were derived. Nonnative scores on the fixed-rati…
Textual Sequence and Second-Language Comprehension
This paper reports research into the interactive roles played in verbal comprehension processes by the sequence of textual elements, text-specific prior knowledge, and levels of language proficiency. Four cloze tests were administered to undergraduate (n=246) and graduate (n=240) native speakers of English and to undergraduate nonnative (n=238) speakers at three universities in northeast Texas. One test passage was a set of descriptive facts with…
Cloze item types and second language comprehension
This paper describes the further analysis of one portion of the data reported in Jonz (1989). Four 50-item fixed-ratio cloze tests were administered to 238 nonnative university freshman. Half of the subjects were randomly assigned to take the cloze tests in their naturally occurring order; the other half of the subjects were randomly assigned to take the tests after the original sequence of the sentences in the passage had been thoroughly scrambl…
Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Cloze test (4 works) · Reading comprehension (4 works) · Comprehension (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Test (biology) (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · First language (2 works)