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Klare, George R. – 1975
One of the ways to handle the increasing demands on readers' skills is to make writing more readable. The problem has two different aspects: predicting how readable writing will be to a reader, and producing writing that is readable to that reader. Prediction is relatively simple, and can be done statistically with readability formulas. Production…
Descriptors: Motivation, Psycholinguistics, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Farago, Magda Leonardi – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses a paragraph-centered approach to the teaching of reading in a foreign language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Instruction, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension