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Lexical Coverage and Readability of Science Textbooks for English-Medium Instruction Secondary Schools in Hong Kong
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Hu, Jingjing; Gao, Xuesong; Qiu, Xuyan – SAGE Open, 2021
Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission of academic knowledge often relies, especially in the early stages of academic learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates the text difficulty of science textbooks used in secondary English-medium instruction schools in Hong Kong, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Readability Formulas, Difficulty Level