USING CLOZE PASSAGES TO ESTIMATE READABILITY FOR RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: PRELIMINARY STUDY

This preliminary study examines the relationships between each of six first language (L1) readability indexes and cloze passage mean performances Russian EFL students. The passages were created by randomly selecting 50 text from an American public library deleting every 12th word in to create a 30-item procedure. participants 5170 students 38 universities theRussian Federation. Each student was assigned take one passages. L1 calculated for Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, Fry, Gunning, Fog, modified Gunning-Fog indexes. results indicate that moderately highly correlated with other, but only somewhat university on versions those same These are discussed terms why other means. authors also explain what they planning further linguistic analyses (e.g., variables like average length, percent function words, number syllables per sentence, words paragraph, frequencies passages, so forth) statistical (including at least factor analysis, multiple regression analyses, structural equation modeling) these data.