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Rating Reading Passages According to the ACTFL Reading Proficiency Standard: Can It Be Learned?

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Lange, Dale L.; Lowe, Pardee, Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1988

Investigates the degree to which potential users of language reading proficiency scales acquire the standard for accurately grading reading passages of foreign-language learners. A five-day workshop helped users of the guidelines rank reading passages for levels of difficulty and rate them accurate according to the ACTFL scales. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Tests

Readability as an Interactive Process: An Analysis of the Syntactic and Semantic Effects on Text of Cloze Errors Associated with Variation in the Structure of Text and in Readers' Knowledge of Topic.

Black, Mary C. – 1979

A study examined whether (1) there are untested indices of difficulty that can be used to enhance the accuracy of readability formulas, (2) the same readability formula can be used to assess the readability of text for mature and immature readers and for good and poor readers, and (3) some one model of the reading process or some synthesis of…

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Models