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Peer reviewedIsraelite, Neita Kay – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
Readability formulas applied to materials for hearing-impaired students do not account for important factors in reader-writer-text interaction. Factors include the reader's purpose, cultural background, and extent of background knowledge; writers' assumptions about readers; the text's structure, content, and cohesion; and the role of…
Descriptors: Authors, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
