TESTING EFL READING COMPREHENSION USING A MULTIPLE-CHOICE RATIONAL CLOZE

ing comprehension by means of the cloze procedure. In a cloze test, the examinee is required to fill in gaps in a given text. After Taylor developed the cloze to measure text difficulty for native readers, other researchers showed that it can measure foreign and second language proficiency as well.1 Opinions differ as to whether the random cloze (every nth word omitted) or rational cloze (the test designer decides which words to omit) is a better test of reading comprehension.2 We chose to use the rational cloze in order to focus our test of EFL