Brown, James D.Brown, James Dean2016-05-092016-05-092002http://hdl.handle.net/10125/40654This particular study is the next step in one strand of my research that stretches back over 20 years. During those two decades, I have been intrigued by cloze procedure because it often turns out to be a reasonably good test of overall English language proficiency, yet we really do not understand how it works. I will briefly review that strand of my own research in order to show how those studies led me to the research hypotheses that drive the present paper.47 pagesSecond Language Studies Paperreformatted digital