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Abbass, Mazin – 1976
The study analyzes, for readability and difficulty, the language of 50 commonly used application forms. The forms were compared with respect to length, readability, t-unit density, and word-length variables. Forms were also compared against two word-frequency lists. Results show that many of the words appearing often on forms do not appear on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research, Readability, Readability Formulas
Golub, Lester S.; Kidder, Carole – Elementary English, 1974
A syntactic density instrument was devised to determine how children use specific syntactic structures in their oral and written language. (JH)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Rose, Andrew M.; Cox, Louis A., Jr. – 1980
Twenty-four adults participated in an experiment to determine the difficulty of conditional sentences of the kinds frequently found in the instructions in government forms. The stimulus materials were 128 sentence frames of the form, "If you are X, press button Y," where X was replaced by sixteen different coordinate structures. These…
Descriptors: Adults, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading, Language Research
Peer reviewedGaies, Stephen J. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This paper discusses a study designed to survey English as a second language readers for the purpose of determining whether a range of syntactic gradation can be observed, and the degree to which readers intended for the same level of proficiency are of equivalent difficulty. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Research
Download full textGreen, G. M.; And Others – 1980
This report describes the work of the text analysis groups of the Center for the Study of Reading, whose goals are to investigate the problem of reading comprehension from the standpoint of comparing properties of texts to the difficulty or ease of reading and to construct appropriate theories to account for text properties. The text analysis…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Connected Discourse, Illustrations, Language Research
Charrow, Veda R. – 1978
Translating legal and bureaucratic language into plain, comprehensible English is not amenable to simple rules and procedures. Rewriting comprehensibly requires specialized knowledge about language and an awareness of a number of misconceptions and pitfalls. This paper discusses what not to do in rewriting, based upon rewritten documents presently…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Government Publications, Grammar, Language Research
Green, G. M.; And Others – 1980
This report presents the text analysis of "Babar Loses His Crown," a story for beginning readers. (The techniques used in arriving at the analysis are presented in a Reading Center Technical Report, Number 168, "Problems and Techniques of Text Analysis.") Tables are given for a statistical lexical analysis and for a syntactic…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Illustrations
