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Exploring the Relationship between Thematic Structures and Readability of English Academic Texts
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Zulprianto; Novalinda – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
This study aims to relate readability degree with thematic structures, a concept based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The texts chosen were fragments purposively sampled from three popular academic texts written by Pierre Bourdieu (1991) (Text 1), Norman Fairclough (1989) (Text 2), and Bill Ashcroft et al. (2002) (Text 3). The Theme…
Descriptors: Readability, Thematic Approach, Second Language Instruction, Linguistics