conclusions the majority of the trauma-related articles from the aaos patient education website have readability levels that may make comprehension difficult for a substantial portion of the patient population. results the mean (sd) grade level readability for all patient education articles was 8.8 (1.1). all but three of the articles had a readability score above the sixth-grade level. the rea...

Text Complexity Analysis is an useful task in Education. For example, it can help teachers select appropriate texts for their students according to their educational level. This task requires the analysis of several text features that people do mostly manually (e.g. syntactic complexity, words variety, etc.). In this paper, we present a tool useful for Complexity Analysis, called Coh-Metrix-Esp...

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 study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. the qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate efl learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

BACKGROUND   Rhinoplasty is a popular aesthetic and reconstructive surgical procedure. However, little is known about the content and readability of online materials for patient education. The recommended grade level for educational materials is 7th to 8th grade according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This study aims to assess the readability of online patient resources for ...

This paper describes a new approach to measuring the complexity of software systems with considering their readability. Readability Metrics were proposed by Chung and Yung [8] in 1990. Readability Metrics have been outstanding among the existing software complexity metrics for taking nonphysical software attributes, like readability, into considerations. The applications of Readability Metrics ...

Text comprehension will suffer if the readability level is not accessible to students. Readability formulas predict text complexity, assisting in appropriate selection that complements students’ reading abilities improve their language development. Therefore, study aims find out index of prose forms literature component catered lower secondary school students ages 13 and 14 years old Form One (...

Finding the right fit between students’ reading ability and textbooks is very important for comprehension. Readability studies aim to analyse texts to find the right fit between students and texts. In this literature review, readability studies are classified under quantitative, qualitative and combined quantitative-qualitative readability approaches. The quantitative approach includes readabil...

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...