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Tuyen Thanh Nguyen; John R. Baker; Thao Quang Le – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigated what features undergraduate EFL learners perceive as affecting the difficulty of model paragraphs. Four hundred and seventy-five Vietnamese undergraduates participated in a partial least squares structural equation model design. They ranked five paragraphs from easiest to most difficult and responded to a 10-point Likert…
Descriptors: Readability, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Boyer, Jean-Yves – 1990
A study investigated whether or not the global structure of a text influences its readability and how that influence might be related to the already recognized influences of vocabulary and sentence length. The subjects, 250 fourth-grade students in Quebec, each read four texts representing four different structures, four subjects, and two levels…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 4