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Peer reviewedParker, Richard I.; Hasbrouck, Jan E.; Weaver, Laurie – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Uses two formulas developed for Spanish language text to analyze 9 stories that were read by 36 Spanish-speaking second graders with limited English proficiency. Finds that the Spanish readability formulas only weakly predicted student performance, indicating the need to pursue broader, qualitative indices of difficulty for Spanish text. (SG)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grade 2, Primary Education, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedHetherington, Anne – TESL Canada Journal, 1985
Examines the traditional criteria for evaluating first and second language reading texts. Proposes that, if reading is interaction between a text and a reader, variables related to the reader's side of the process, global textual properties, content characteristics, and rhetorical and discourse features should be considered before linguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Readability Formulas, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Material Selection
Collins, Vickie L. – 1990
This edition is an annotated list of 390 literacy materials for adult new readers. All the materials are written on an eighth-grade level or below. These paperback instructional titles, many in workbook format, are for use with adult basic education (ABE) and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. The introduction includes guidelines for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
