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Download full textPlakans, Lia; Bilki, Zeynep – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This study of English as a second language (ESL) reading textbooks investigates cohesion in reading passages from 27 textbooks. The guiding research questions were whether and how cohesion differs across textbooks written for beginning, intermediate, and advanced second language readers. Using a computational tool called Coh-Metrix, textual…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Reading Instruction
Direct linkSpadorcia, Stephanie A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2005
This study analyzed the word-, sentence-, and passage-level demands of high-interest, low-level books in a manner consistent with an interactive model of reading comprehension. Cases consisted of three randomly selected passages from sixty different books. Cases were analyzed across five variables: high-frequency words, decodable words, sentences,…
Descriptors: High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Readability Formulas
