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Blau, Eileen K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1982
The effect on reading comprehension of manipulating the degree of sentence combining in a passage was assessed for college students and eighth graders. It was found that lower readability level material, as measured by common readability formulas, does not facilitate comprehension for either group, and may actually impede it. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Grade 8