Although some traditional readability formulas have shown high predictive validity in the r = 0.8 range and above (Chall & Dale, 1995), they are generally not based on genuine linguistic processing factors, but on statistical correlations (Crossley et al., 2008). Improvement of readability assessment should focus on finding variables that truly represent the comprehensibility of text as well as...

O ral vitamin K antagonists, such as warfarin, are among the most commonly prescribed and potentially dangerous classes of medications. For many high-risk drugs, such as warfarin, there is a strong link between patient knowledge about the medication and their safe use. For warfarin, provision of high-quality education improves compliance, increases time in the therapeutic range, and leads to a ...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

This research aimed to analyze Category shifts; Structure-shift, Class-shift, Unit shift, and Intra-system by Catford (1965) in female-lead utterances To All The Boys: Always Forever (2021) movie subtitles, identify the most dominant shift quality of translation used assessment theory Nababan (2012). descriptive-qualitative method is applied data. data was obtained English Indonesian subtitles....

The study under consideration highlights the multidimensional comprehensive analysis of eight texts diverse genre attribution applied in international PIRLS testing during 2001-2011 (PIRLS (Progress International Reading Literacy Study) is conducted by Association assessment academic achievements IEA. national coordinator research implementation Russian Federation FIAQE «Federal Institute quali...

Readability is used to provide users with highquality service in text recommendation or text visualization. With the increasing use of handheld devices, reading device is regarded as an important factor for readability. Therefore, this paper investigates the relationship between readability and reading devices such as a smart phone, a tablet, and paper. We suggest readability factors that are s...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to review readability formulae and offer a critique, based on a comparison of the grading of a variety of texts given by six well-known formulae. Methodology – A total of 64 texts in English were selected either by or for native English speaking children aged between six and 11 years. Each text was assessed using six commonly used readability formulae via t...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the suitability and readability of printed educational materials for patients with hypertension in Korea. METHODS A total of 33 written educational materials related to hypertension were collected from public health centers, hospitals, and internet web site. Among them, we analyzed 19 materials which fit the inclusion criteria: leaflets (n=9), bookl...

BACKGROUND Published guidelines recommend written health information be written at or below the sixth-grade level. We evaluate the readability of online materials related to thyroid surgery. METHODS Thyroid surgery materials were evaluated using Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Frequency of Gobbledygook (GFOG), and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SM...