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Download full textHendratno; Nurul Istiq’faroh; Fajar Nur Yasin; Amiruddin Hadi Wibowo; Abd. Ghofur – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Fry readability-based digital storybooks on reading comprehension skills among elementary school students. The method used in this study was an experimental research design with a pretest-posttest control group design to measure students' reading comprehension skills. The sample of this study was…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Story Reading, Reading Comprehension, Benchmarking
Abdullah, Muhaimin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The main objective of this research is to find out whether rate-buildup reading, skimming, and scanning strategies applied in hybrid learning method help students boost their reading speed and comprehension. This research employed quasi-experimental design. 15 students were involved into experimental group and 15 were enrolled into control group.…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Blended Learning, Reading Strategies
Pishghadamn, Reza; Abbasnejad, Hannaheh – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
Given the deficiencies of readability formulae as reliable tools for measuring text readability in educational settings, this study aims to offer a new measure to improve the current methods of testing the readability levels of texts through the incorporation of the newly-developed concept of emotioncy. To this end, a group of 221 students were…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Attaprechakul, Damrong – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study aimed to explore inference strategies necessary to successfully read journal articles. Eighty-eight graduate students read a set of texts on education and economic growth and answered comprehension questions. Twenty-four of these participants also volunteered for an in-depth interview. The findings revealed that students usually relied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Graduate Students
Institute for Academic Excellence, Inc. Madison, WI. – 1998
This report presents information regarding Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) guidelines as they relate to the Accelerated Reader program. The report states that a student's zone of proximal development is the range of book readability levels that will challenge a student without causing frustration or loss of motivation. It discusses factors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas
Davison, Alice – 1985
A survey of the current research on readability formulas is presented in this paper, which distinguishes this research from research on the more general questions that surround formulas: What features of a text, particularly the language it is written in, make the text easy or difficult to read? and, What will predict that readers with particular…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Processing, Measurement Techniques, Readability
Peer reviewedEvans, Charles S. – Social Studies, 1987
Presents a study of United States History textbooks that identifies possible shortcomings of several readability formulas as tools in determining the appropriateness of reading materials. Suggests additional factors to consider when selecting textbooks and techniques to help students understand reading materials. (AEM)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
