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Download full textSolnyshkina, Marina I.; Harkova, Elena V.; Kiselnikov, Aleksander S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article summarizes the results of the comparative study of Reading comprehension texts used in B2 level tests: Unified (Russia) State Exam in English (EGE) and Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). The research conducted was mainly focused on six parameters measured with the Coh-Metrix, a computational tool producing indices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Powers, Wanda Chason – 1975
This study was designed to determine whether the content of selected beginning reading textbooks is comparable in syntactic complexity to the oral language of normal first-grade children and whether there was a predictable progression of syntactic complexity within the textbooks examined. The ten samples were taken from the primary levles of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Language Usage
Peer reviewedAbbott, Gerry – Reading, 1979
Presents sample passages from children's readers to show deficiencies in the coherence of such texts, particularly in the way they relate to accompanying illustrations. (GT)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Educational Problems
Garber, Marianne Daniels – 1979
A study was undertaken to investigate the nature of the cohesive features found in the language of selected first grade students and to study and compare the cohesive features of language samples in the beginning level of three widely used reading series to those found in the language of the children for whom they are intended. In the first part…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Cohesion (Written Composition)
Peer reviewedSimons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul – Research in the Teaching of English, 1989
Describes some of the mismatches that can occur between child knowledge and the controlled "primerese" language of texts. Finds ways in which children bring their linguistic knowledge to bear on the reading process. Indicates that the controls and distinctive features of primerese text are counterproductive. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Bruce, Bertram; And Others – 1983
A study examined the match between the vocabularies of children of different ethnic and socioeconomic status groups and the school vocabulary revealed by readability formulas and word lists. The Spache 1040 and the Dale 769 readability formula word lists were used as indicators of school vocabulary in the early primary grades, and a corpus of talk…
Descriptors: Blacks, Content Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
