Text difficulty vs text readability: Students’ voices
Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2022 Reading is an essential skill to be mastered, especially by university students and it is the lecturers’ responsibility to train their students to develop their reading skill.
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Mind wandering increases linearly with text difficulty. [PDF]
Psychol Res, 2022 Contains fulltext : 230771.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Although mind wandering during reading is known to be affected by text difficulty, the nature of this relationship is not yet fully understood. To examine this issue, we
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Empirical Verification of the Polish Formula of Text Difficulty
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Empirical Verification of the Polish Formula of Text Difficulty The aim of the study was to verify the accuracy of the formula for assessing the difficulty of texts written in Polish (Pisarek 1969).
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Measuring Text Difficulty Using Parse-Tree Frequency. [PDF]
J Assoc Inf Sci Technol, 2017 Text simplification often relies on dated, unproven readability formulas. As an alternative and motivated by the success of term familiarity, we test a complementary measure: grammar familiarity.
Kauchak D, Leroy G, Hogue A.
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Dyslexics’ Fragile Oculomotor Control Is Further Destabilized by Increased Text Difficulty [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Dyslexic adolescents demonstrate deficits in word decoding, recognition, and oculomotor coordination as compared to healthy controls. Our lab recently showed intrinsic deficits in large saccades and vergence movements with a Remobi device independent ...
Lindsey M. Ward, Zoi Kapoula
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Evaluation of an online text simplification editor using manual and automated metrics for perceived and actual text difficulty. [PDF]
JAMIA Open, 2022 OBJECTIVE: Simplifying healthcare text to improve understanding is difficult but critical to improve health literacy. Unfortunately, few tools exist that have been shown objectively to improve text and understanding.
Leroy G, Kauchak D, Haeger D, Spegman D.
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Self-efficacy, Text Difficulty and EFL Learners’ Pedagogic Task Performance [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2019 Till recently, text difficulty has commonly been determined by employing readability formulas, however, major criticisms have been leveled against readability formulas (Graves & Graves, 2003).This research project aimed at determining text difficulty ...
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Investigating the validity of KFL text difficulty as defined by the ILR Reading Scales [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2016 The purpose of this study is to explore the validity of text difficulty as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) in the context of the Korean Flagship Admission Test (KFAT) administered at a university on the west coast in the U.S.
Sun-Young Shin
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Text difficulty, topic interest, and mind wandering during reading
Learning and Instruction, 2019 The present article deals with the question of how the difficulty of a text affects a reader's tendency to engage in task-unrelated thinking (mind wandering) during reading, and the potential role of topic interest as a mediator of the relation between ...
Alexander Soemer, Ulrich Schiefele
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Influence of Audio Speech Rate and Source Text Difficulty on Health Information Comprehension and Retention. [PDF]
Proc Annu Hawaii Int Conf Syst SciHealth literacy is crucial for patients to make informed healthcare decisions. Although text has historically been the main form of health information dissemination, people rely increasingly on audio-delivered information, e.g., through smart speakers ...
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