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Download full textSelden, Ramsay – 1977
Readability estimates are usually based on measures of word difficulty and measures of sentence difficulty. Word difficulty is measured in two ways: by the structural size and complexity of words or by reference to phonomena of language use, such as word-list frequency or the regularity of spelling patterns. Sentence difficulty is measured only in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Measurement Techniques, Readability
