Thanks for the replies. Seems there's a lot of possibilities. I've tossed a few ideas around over the past cpl years but haven't actually used them .;p The way I've used cloze deletion with other subjects is while I'm reading, I copy/paste a passage into the SRS, cloze delete a few salient points so that the single words are on the Answer side... the goal was only partially to remember particular 'word-concepts', mostly I was just trying to anchor the ideas to one another, because the side-effect of that process was almost a rote memorization of the word when I read the swath of text I took it from.
So then when I was looking at how useful it was to offload goals for sentences (ie the listening/parsing in a video clip deck, the vocabulary in a separate deck), I wanted something similar to practicing reading--except for reading the emphasis wouldn't be on listening and parsing at someone else's pace, it would be to try and get used to reading multi-sentence areas of text without stumbling, getting used to a less strict internal process than I would have with the more intensive recognition cards I did with smart.fm/KO2001 starting out.
In that sense, I wouldn't be doing cloze deletion for reading to memorize vocabulary so much as to get used to the process of associations words with one another quickly, making inferences on the fly, etc., and the 'cheating' aspect of memorizing stuff by rote and having those 'hints' would actually ensure a certain amount of stability, as long as I maintain a smallish pool of words and paragraphs. Anyway, the idea's a work in progress, bear with me and my explanations for now. ^_^
Oh, but ironically I've actually switched to ungraded cards in the SRS for those other subjects I mentioned, I don't even add fill-in-the-blanks, I just copy/paste pieces of text and read them, then pass them. If a passage comes up and it 'feels' too unfamiliar and doesn't summon conceptual associations, then I fail it or grade it hard. It's odd but works.
So then when I was looking at how useful it was to offload goals for sentences (ie the listening/parsing in a video clip deck, the vocabulary in a separate deck), I wanted something similar to practicing reading--except for reading the emphasis wouldn't be on listening and parsing at someone else's pace, it would be to try and get used to reading multi-sentence areas of text without stumbling, getting used to a less strict internal process than I would have with the more intensive recognition cards I did with smart.fm/KO2001 starting out.
In that sense, I wouldn't be doing cloze deletion for reading to memorize vocabulary so much as to get used to the process of associations words with one another quickly, making inferences on the fly, etc., and the 'cheating' aspect of memorizing stuff by rote and having those 'hints' would actually ensure a certain amount of stability, as long as I maintain a smallish pool of words and paragraphs. Anyway, the idea's a work in progress, bear with me and my explanations for now. ^_^
Oh, but ironically I've actually switched to ungraded cards in the SRS for those other subjects I mentioned, I don't even add fill-in-the-blanks, I just copy/paste pieces of text and read them, then pass them. If a passage comes up and it 'feels' too unfamiliar and doesn't summon conceptual associations, then I fail it or grade it hard. It's odd but works.
Edited: 2010-02-16, 1:58 pm