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Yuchen Wang; Juxiang Zhou; Zijie Li; Shu Zhang; Xiaoyu Han – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Graded reading is one of the important ways of English learning. How to automatically judge and grade the difficulty of the English reading corpus is of great significance for precision teaching and personalized learning. However, the current rule-based readability assessment methods have some limitations, such as low efficiency and poor accuracy.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Reading Materials, Readability, Semantics

Abrahamsen, Eileen P.; Shelton, Kathleen C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The effects of semantic and syntactic complexity on the reading comprehension of content-area prose were investigated among 92 adolescents with learning disabilities. Subjects who read passages that had been modified syntactically or both syntactically and semantically exhibited improved comprehension. Semantic modifications alone did not affect…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Difficulty Level