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ELT Journal 1992 46(2):199-208; doi:10.1093/elt/46.2.199
© 1992 by Oxford University Press
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Lexicide and goblin-spotting in the language/literature classroom

Ray Mackay

Ray Mackay has previously worked in Kenya, Morocco, and in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 1987 he has been involved in teacher-training in Hong Kong. He is presently studying for a Ph.D. in the area of stylistics.

The use of varieties of the cloze procedure in language teaching is now quite general and, increasingly, the procedure has been used with literary texts as these have become more integrated into language programmes. This article contrasts the use of cloze in literary and non-literary contexts and attempts to demonstrate that language teachers are incompetent when it comes to operating with literary texts. It is argued that cloze procedure should not be used with literary texts.1


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