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Text Simplification and Comprehensible Input: A Case for an Intuitive Approach
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Crossley, Scott A.; Allen, David; McNamara, Danielle S. – Language Teaching Research, 2012
Texts are routinely simplified to make them more comprehensible for second language learners. However, the effects of simplification upon the linguistic features of texts remain largely unexplored. Here we examine the effects of one type of text simplification: intuitive text simplification. We use the computational tool, Coh-Metrix, to examine…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intuition