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ERIC Number: EJ233547
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Jun
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The Assessment of Linguistic Difficulty in Reading Material.
Perera, Katharine
Educational Review, v32 n2 p151-61 Jun 1980
It is argued that informed judgments by a thoughtful teacher may have advantages over the application of a readability formula in assessing the linguistic difficulty of a text. Examples are given. (KC)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Material Selection, Reading Materials, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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