Investigating Efl University Students' Written Performance On Cloze Test

Abstract

This study aims at investigating EFL university students written performance in cloze tests in relation to the grammatical, vocabulary and discoursal mistakes of the texts they write. The causal-comparative design was used by the researcher. The study's population was made up of (275) male and female third-year students at the University of Mosul's English department and College of Basic Education. A random sampling technique was applied for sample selection. The total number of the sample was (110) male and female students during the academic year 2021-2022. The sample is divided into two groups (male and female); each group consisted of (55) students. This study's instrument was the test. There was only one type of test provided, which was a cloze test that passed the instrument validation stage. When the cloze test was used to measure written performance, the study's findings revealed that most third-grade students at Mosul University demonstrated a significantly different level of written performance.