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Moe, Alden J. – Educational Technology, 1980
Reviews the literature and examines the state of technology for computer based text analysis. The computer capabilities of several available text analysis programs are presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Content Analysis, Readability, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedTefki, Chaffai – Journal of Documentation, 1987
This review of findings in the field of readability research discusses the differences in meaning between readability and legibility, examines the origins and developments of readability formulas for children's and adult materials, and describes several of the best-known formulas for English-language materials. (46 references) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Readability
Starling, Betty R. – 1979
A review of research reveals that, although several reading researchers recognize the significance of grammatical complexity beyond the sentence in reading comprehension, little research exists in this area of grammatical interrelationships among sentences. The first step toward an understanding of grammatical complexity beyond the sentence is for…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Readability
Peer reviewedIrwin, Judith Westphal – Reading Teacher, 1980
Points out that if relationships between sentences are made implicit (for the sake of simplicity or readability), comprehension may suffer and explains three teaching strategies for improving students' comprehension of implicit connectives. (RL)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textGreen, G. M.; And Others – 1980
This report describes the work of the text analysis groups of the Center for the Study of Reading, whose goals are to investigate the problem of reading comprehension from the standpoint of comparing properties of texts to the difficulty or ease of reading and to construct appropriate theories to account for text properties. The text analysis…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Connected Discourse, Illustrations, Language Research
Davison, Alice – 1980
One factor that contributes to the difficulty that a reader may encounter when reading a text is the syntactic complexity of the constructions used in the text. Examples of altered text constructions include the transformations of subjects of subordinate clauses, making them either the subjects or the objects of main clauses. When the conditions…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Styles
Peer reviewedVenable, Gail Portnuff – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
This article discusses the reading fluency and comprehension problems of struggling secondary students who can read, with assistance, on a fourth-grade reading level or above. Difficulties with vocabulary and sentence construction are described, along with problems with pronoun reference and noun substitutions, metaphor, and conventions of print.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Metaphors, Pronouns, Readability
