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Direct linkCrossley, Scott A.; Allen, David B.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2011
Texts are routinely simplified for language learners with authors relying on a variety of approaches and materials to assist them in making the texts more comprehensible. Readability measures are one such tool that authors can use when evaluating text comprehensibility. This study compares the Coh-Metrix Second Language (L2) Reading Index, a…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Word Processing, Psycholinguistics
Spiegel, Glenn; Campbell, John J. – 1985
The Flesch readability index yields meaningful information about the responses of readers to texts. Because the formula is so simple, a group of English teachers wrote a program in BASIC that would count some obvious surface features of a text and calculate Flesch scores. Among the programing problems encountered were counting words (taking into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
