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Sibanda, Lucy – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
This paper, deriving from a larger study, evaluates the readability of two Grade 4 natural sciences textbooks used by learners who speak English as an additional language in two South African schools. The study is set within the context of the reading-related transitional challenges faced by English second language learners when they move from the…
Descriptors: Readability, Grade 4, Natural Sciences, Foreign Countries
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Pishghadamn, Reza; Abbasnejad, Hannaheh – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
Given the deficiencies of readability formulae as reliable tools for measuring text readability in educational settings, this study aims to offer a new measure to improve the current methods of testing the readability levels of texts through the incorporation of the newly-developed concept of emotioncy. To this end, a group of 221 students were…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Gamson, David A.; Lu, Xiaofei; Eckert, Sarah Anne – Educational Researcher, 2013
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for raising the level of text complexity in textbooks and reading materials used by students across all grade levels in the United States; the authors of the English Language Arts component of the CCSS build their case for higher complexity in part upon a research base they say shows a…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Difficulty Level, Reading Ability