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Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn – System, 1997
Addresses the accessibility of texts produced by the Overseas Development Administration. This research analyzes a corpus of texts and shows that factors making the texts difficult include poor linguistic structure, contextual structure, conceptual structure, and unclear operationalisation of the reader-writer relationship. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Awareness, Cluster Grouping, Concept Formation
Direct linkMiller, P. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
There Groups of Students--19 hard of hearing, 20 deaf, and a control group of 36 typically developing hearing readers--were compared on their ability to process written words at the lexical level and on their comprehension of words within the structure of a sentence. Findings generally suggested that severe prelingual hearing loss does not prevent…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Hearing Impairments, Sentence Structure, At Risk Persons
