The Language Difficulty of the Original Version and the Rewritten Version of The Time Machine: A Corpus-based Study

This study examines the language difficulty of original version and rewritten The Time Machine from perspective lexical complexity, syntactic semantic complexity. We aim to answer following two research questions: (1) Is there a significant difference between Machine? If yes, in what ways? (2) well-targeted at its intended readers? data consisted three corpora, Machine, version, passages English subjects National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) China. results demonstrate versions on most measures difficulty, but many respects, still leaves much work before becoming suitable reading material for target readers. With such analysis carried out, we seek offer some pedagogical implications better facilitate learning