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Download full textDavison, Alice, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The papers included in this collection represent as closely as possible the content and organization of the oral presentations delivered at a March 1980 conference on the use of readability formulas. The papers discuss the following topics: (1) an introduction to the conference, with general remarks on the uses and criticism of readability…
Descriptors: Captions, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
Edwards, Peter; Sofo, Frank – 1982
After reviewing criticisms of the exclusive use of readability formulas to evaluate text difficulty and describing successful efforts to broaden the traditional readability formula approach, this report presents a 20 item checklist for determining text comprehensibility based on four criteria: (1) specific objectives or outcomes expected from the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Content Area Reading, Design, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedBaines, Lawrence – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1996
Analyzes aspects of language in three novels and their film adaptations. Gives examples of how the films reshaped the novels; speculates about the relationships between language, content, and media; and offers suggestions for instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Films, Language Usage, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedGuth, Lorraine J.; Murphy, Laura – Clearing House, 1998
Offers an overview of "people first language," language which aims to create a positive view of people with disabilities in place of insensitive portrayals that stereotype and discriminate. Presents results of a readability analysis of such language, and suggests ways such terminology can be integrated into middle and high schools. (SR)
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Inclusive Schools, Language Usage, Middle Schools
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
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
Kim, Byong Won, Ed. – 1984
Focusing on instruction in the English language arts by students for whom English is a second language, this yearbook contains the papers from the precongress institute, "Reading English in Asia," of the tenth International Reading Association World Congress on Reading--held in Hong Kong in 1984. Part 1 contains "Linguistic Theories and L2…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Cultural Context
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
Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
