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Peer reviewedVari-Cartier, Patricia – Modern Language Journal, 1981
Demonstrates use of Fry Readability Graph (FRG) and Adaptation for Spanish Evaluation (FRASE) graph to assess reading difficulty for use with Spanish material. (BK)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Readability Formulas, Reading Materials, Second Languages
Download full textAnderson, Jonathan – 1981
"Lasbarhetsindex" ("Lix") is a readability formula developed in Sweden that holds promise for assessing text difficulty in other languages, including English. So far three separate studies have been conducted to test Lix with French and English texts, with German and English texts, and with Greek and English texts. In all three…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, English, Foreign Countries
