Optimizing readability indexesan experiment on reading ease in EnglishFL textbooks
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Universidad de Murcia
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- Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (coord.)
- Begoña Crespo García (coord.)
- Inés Lareo Martín (coord.)
- Paula Lojo Sandino (coord.)
Verlag: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-401-4
Datum der Publikation: 2010
Titel des Bandes: Part I, A-K
Ausgabe: 1
Seiten: 169-182
Kongress: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (2. 2010. A Coruña)
Art: Konferenz-Beitrag
Zusammenfassung
From their creation in the 1950s, readability indexes have been widely used in order to measure textualdifficulty. In the current paper, we examine the accuracy of the six most commonly used measures,namely Flesch Reading Ease Score, Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog, Automated ReadabilityIndex, SMOG, and Coleman-Liau Index. These measures have been applied to a number of English FLtexts, already graded into elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate, accordingto the textbooks they appear in. Subsequently, by means of the data obtained, we have come up with anew optimized measure which attempts to bring considerable benefit to the area of language teaching