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Peer reviewedPeretz, Arna S.; Shoham, Miriam – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1990
Investigates hypothesis that topic familiarity and assessed difficulty of a text correlate positively with performance on reading comprehension tests. A study of 177 advanced students of English for Specific Purposes indicates that students' subjective evaluation of the relative difficulty of a reading text is not always a reliable index of their…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English for Special Purposes, Familiarity, Performance Factors
