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Rabin, Annette T. – 1987
The development of readability formulas for the evaluation of foreign language texts began with research in the United States on reading materials used in second language learning and has extended to many other countries first by adaptation of formulas intended for English language texts and then by original investigation. There exist now many…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Problems, Language Research, Readability
Abbass, Mazin – 1976
The study analyzes, for readability and difficulty, the language of 50 commonly used application forms. The forms were compared with respect to length, readability, t-unit density, and word-length variables. Forms were also compared against two word-frequency lists. Results show that many of the words appearing often on forms do not appear on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research, Readability, Readability Formulas
