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Cohen, S. Alan; Steinberg, Joan E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Concludes that it is necessary to consider text frequency and standard frequency index and to discriminate technical words from technical support and nontechnical words to obtain a reliable indication of a science text's readability. (AEA)
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