Assessment of text readability is important for assigning texts at the appropriate level to
readers at different proficiency levels. The present research approached readability …

A combination of two new, but very different, approaches to the prediction of readability
could be particularly valuable in evaluating English texts written for native and non‐native …

Readability is a linguistic feature that indicates how difficult it is to read a text. Traditional
readability formulas were made for the English language. This study evaluates their …

This research investigated whether spelling ability, an index of precise lexical
representations, predicts the balance between bottom-up and top-down processing in online …

I examine the central ideas of the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (LQH), reviewing the early
studies that motivated them, and discussing more recent research that further supports and …

This paper aimed to examine the lexical density and readability of four texts from English
textbooks known as Active Skill for Reading (Anderson, 2003a, 2003b, 2003c, 2003d) at …

Readability indices have been widely used in order to measure textual difficulty. They can
be useful for the automatic classification of texts, especially in language teaching. Among …

The importance of vocabulary in reading comprehension emphasizes the need to accurately
assess an individual's familiarity with words. The present article highlights problems with …

The article discusses the three approaches to readability measurement that have been
developed from the early 1900s to the présent—classic readability, cognitive-structural …

In recent years, readability formulas have gained new prominence as a basis for selecting
texts for learning and assessment. Variables that quantitative tools count (eg, word …