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Cárcamo Morales, Benjamín – TESOL Journal, 2020
This article evaluates the mandatory English as a foreign language textbooks provided by the government in Chile in terms of readability and types of questions. Three readability formulas are used to analyze the texts: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Coh-Metrix L2 reading index (RDL2). To evaluate the cognitive demands that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
UK Department for Education, 2024
This report sets out the findings of the technical development work completed as part of the Use Cases for Generative AI in Education project, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) in September 2023. It has been published alongside the User Research Report, which sets out the findings from the ongoing user engagement activity…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
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O'Brien, Edward J.; Cook, Anne E. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Common to all models of reading comprehension is the assumption that a reader's level of comprehension is heavily influenced by their standards of coherence (van den Broek, Risden, & Husbye-Hartman, 1995). Our discussion focuses on a subcomponent of the readers' standards of coherence: the coherence threshold. We situate this discussion within…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Models, Rhetoric, Reading Ability