Karim Sadeghi  has a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK) and is a professor of TESOL at Urmia University (Iran). He is the founding editor-in-chief of Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (indexed in Web of Science and Scopus) and serves on the editorial board of several national and international journals including RELC Journal (SAGE), Research in Post Compulsory Education (Routledge), TESOL Journal (Wiley) and Language Testing in Asia (Springer). He was selected as Iran's top researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013 and in English Language/Applied Linguistics in 2018. His recent publications have appeared in RELC Journal, System, Assessing Writing, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and English for Specific Purposes Journal.

Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Reading in a second language.- Chapter 3: The cloze procedure.- Chapter 4: Criterion-related validity of cloze procedure.- Chapter 5: Judgmental Validity of Cloze from Test-takers' Viewpoint: Quantitative and Qualities Perspectives.- Chapter 6: Judgmental Validity of Cloze from Teachers as Test-makers' Viewpoint: Quantitative and Qualities Perspectives.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- References.- Appendices.