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Direct linkBotarleanu, Robert-Mihai; Dascalu, Mihai; Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to objectively quantify the complexity of a text can be a useful indicator of how likely learners of a given level will comprehend it. Before creating more complex models of assessing text difficulty, the basic building block of a text consists of words and, inherently, its overall difficulty is greatly influenced by the complexity of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Acquisition, Age, Models
Rets, Irina; Coughlan, Tim; Stickler, Ursula; Astruc, Lluisa – Open Learning, 2023
Open Educational Resources aim to offer learning to all, yet the language level used in resources could be a barrier to many potential learners. This paper examines the readability of 200 OER courses in English from two major OER course platforms. We compared the means of readability metrics between these OER courses at different educational…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Open Educational Resources, Readability, Readability Formulas
Garraffa, Maria; Smart, Francesca; Obregón, Mateo – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The present study investigated the effect of classroom-based syntactic training on children's abilities to produce passive sentences. Thirty-three monolingual English children (mean age 5;2), were involved in passive-voice training based on storytelling sessions within a priming design. The training was delivered in a classroom setting, with two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, English, Monolingualism
Anderson, Ethel E., Comp. – 1978
Based on lists submitted by practitioners working in the 0 to grade 9 levels of English-speaking adult basic education (ABE) in Canada, this annotated bibliography is composed of 283 items currently in use. Six categories are included: (1) reading, which covers reading systems, instructional material, phonics, and independent reading; (2) language…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Arithmetic, English Instruction
Bruce, Bertram; And Others – 1983
A study examined the match between the vocabularies of children of different ethnic and socioeconomic status groups and the school vocabulary revealed by readability formulas and word lists. The Spache 1040 and the Dale 769 readability formula word lists were used as indicators of school vocabulary in the early primary grades, and a corpus of talk…
Descriptors: Blacks, Content Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Parrish, Berta E.; And Others – 1978
The nine articles presented in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference which focused on new directions in reading. Four of the articles deal with evaluation techniques in reading and include discussions of developing culture-fair informal reading inventories, what oral language tests really measure, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests
