Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension: Readability Issues Reconsidered - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 089859541X ISBN 13: 9780898595413

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1988

Riassunto

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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Contenuti

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 089859541X
• ISBN 13: 9780898595413
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Davison Alice, Green Georgia M.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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