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Peer reviewedHarber, Jean R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The article examines the available means of determining the readability of written materials and reviews the empirical evidence that indicates consideration of syntactic complexity in determining readability. Problems with readability formulas are pointed out. Guidelines for using readability formulas that take syntactic complexity into account…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Learning Disabilities, Prediction
Peer reviewedValdes, Guadalupe; And Others – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1984
Discusses how current procedures for selecting/constructing equivalent texts may lead to error because of their specific limitations; proposes the utilization of micro-propositional analysis coupled with word-frequency lists and readability formulas for constructing "matching" texts; presents some procedures which researchers working in…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, English, Multilingual Materials
Peer reviewedRichaudeau, Francois – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes research conducted in France on text readability and suggests that readability formulas give high scores to redundant texts that have no great interest and penalize texts with original information. Argues that a coefficient should be incorporated into readability formulas that reflects the nature of the text. (MKM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
