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Download full textBüsra Ergin – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
The study was carried out with 45 web pages reached as a result of scanning the relevant keywords in the 'Google' search engine, eliminating repetitive web pages, and applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Content analysis, readability calculation, and statistical analyses of the data obtained from web-based information sources were…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Web Sites, Search Engines, Readability
Peer reviewedSmith, Ron F.; Smith, Kay L. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Reports on a study that examined 15 randomly selected issues of a newspaper to determine if the readability scores for stories written in different writing styles are consistent when assessed by different tests. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Newspapers, Readability
Olmstead, Phyllis M. – 1993
A study analyzed the readability of seven central Florida newspapers (one of which is a college newspaper) and "USA Today.""Rightwriter," a grammar checker and readability computer program, was used to evaluate front page articles for each of the eight newspapers. The readability formulas invoked in the readability program…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Content Analysis, Correlation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBjornsson, C. H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Determined the readability of large circulation, metropolitan newspapers in 11 different languages using the formula of sentence length plus word length. Swedish language newspapers were the most readable, Russian language newspapers the lease. (AEA)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Language Periodicals, Media Research, Newspapers
Trollinger, William V.; Kaestle, Carl F. – 1986
This study assessed the readability of popular print material (newspapers, magazines, and books) published in 1920. Selected passages from these books and articles were analyzed using the Flesch Reading Ease test and other, more theoretically interesting and relevant, readability formulas. Results indicated that "highbrow" publications…
Descriptors: Adults, Content Analysis, Educational History, Fiction
Cottler, Risa – 1987
A study examined 20 New Jersey daily newspapers to assess the impact of readability on circulation. It was hypothesized that the circulation of a newspaper would be inversely related to the readability level of its contents; that is to say, as reading material becomes harder to read, fewer people will read it. News pieces (divided into hard news,…
Descriptors: Media Research, News Reporting, News Writing, Newspapers
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1982
Offers suggestions on how to ask questions in a teacher/student reading conference, promote professional growth through the use of reading journals, produce a newspaper as a final examination, use modern music to teach reading and writing, and use content area textbooks to teach reading skills. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Educational Games, Learning Activities
