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Download full textTugrul Gökmen Sahin; Mehmet Coskun – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
The texts in the textbooks are one of the basic materials in terms of conveying elements such as achievement, value, and competence in the curriculum. The fact that the texts are suitable for the level of the students helps the students understand and analyze the text better. In this study, it is aimed at determining the readability levels of the…
Descriptors: Readability, Turkish, Textbooks, Anxiety
Direct linkXiaopeng Zhang; Xiaofei Lu – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners' perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters' comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decision Making
Jhangiani, Rajiv S.; Dastur, Farhad N.; Le Grand, Richard; Penner, Kurt – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
The increase in the cost of college textbooks together with the proliferation of digital content and devices has inspired the development of open textbooks, open educational resources that are free, openly licensed, and often peer-reviewed. Although several published studies have investigated the impact of open textbook adoption on educational…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Student Attitudes, College Students
Ramsey, Richard N.; And Others – Forum for Reading, 1994
Finds that student perceptions of readability and interest levels in two upper-level college composition texts varied from the Flesch and the Fry readability and human interest formulas. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Interests
O'Hear, Michael F.; And Others – 1992
A study examined the relation between formula ratings and student perception of both readability and interest in developmental reading/study skills and intermediate composition texts. Subjects, 200 composition students and 96 study skills students, responded to the statements "this text was easy to read" and "the text chapters were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interest Inventories, Readability, Readability Formulas
