“…It has also been postulated, however, that cloze is a measure of language redundancy (Burton & Licklider, 1955;MacGinitie, 1961;Tuinman, Blanton & Gray, 1975;Weaver & Kingston, 1963), language skills (Carroll, et al, 1959;Taylor, 1953), verbal aptitude (Carroll, 1941;Taylor, 1957) or classical closure factors (flexibility and speed of closure) (Ohnmacht, Weaver & Kohler, 1970).…”