Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension
Readability Issues Reconsidered
Published on 1. January 1988
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-89859-541-3 (ISBN)
Description
Standard readability formulas are widely accepted as reliable means of determining text difficulty for readers. This book examines the shortcomings of these formulas, both for professionals who try to use these formulas to match texts with readers and for others who study how language is understood. Language comprehension experts in cognitive psychology, education, and linguistics present alternative viewpoints concerning the issue of effective readability predictors. The long-term result: new questions raised by the research in this book should help to make texts more comprehensible and to provide a theoretically sound model of language processing and interpretation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-89859-541-3 (9780898595413)
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Content
Contents: A. Davison, G.M. Green, Introduction. B. Bruce, A. Rubin, Readability Formulas: Matching Tool and Task. R.C. Anderson, A. Davison, Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Readability Formulas. E.L. Baker, N.K. Atwood, T.M. Duffy, Cognitive Approaches to Assessing the Readability of Text. V. Charrow, Readability vs. Comprehensibility: A Case Study in Improving a Real Document. G.M. Green, M.S. Olsen, Preferences for and Comprehension of Original and Readability Adapted Materials. S. Kemper, Inferential Complexity and the Readability of Tests. S. Crain, D. Shankweiler, Syntactic Complexity and Reading Acquisition. L. Frazier, The Study of Linguistic Complexity. J.H. Randall, Of Butchers and Bakers and Candlestick-Makers: The Problem of Morphology in Understanding Words. C.S. Smith, Factors of Linguistic Complexity and Performance.