Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
The article presents the results of an exploratory study of the use of T.E.R.A., an automated tool measuring text complexity and readability based on the assessment of five text complexity parameters: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion and deep cohesion. Aimed...
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| author | Marina Solnyshkina Radif Zamaletdinov Ludmila Gorodetskaya Azat Gabitov |
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| description | The article presents the results of an exploratory study of the use of T.E.R.A., an automated tool measuring text complexity and readability based on the assessment of five text complexity parameters: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion and deep cohesion. Aimed at finding ways to utilize T.E.R.A. for selecting texts with specific parameters we selected eight academic texts with similar Flesch-Kincaid Grade levels and contrasted their complexity parameters scores to find how specific parameters correlate with each other. In this article we demonstrate the correlations between text narrativity and word concreteness, abstractness of the studied texts and Flesch – Kincaid Grade Level. We also confirm that cohesion components do not correlate with Flesch –Kincaid Grade Level. The findings indicate that text parameters utilized in T.E.R.A. contribute to better prediction of text characteristics than traditional readability formulas.The correlations between the text complexity parameters values identified are viewed as beneficial for developing a comprehensive approach to selection of academic texts for a specific target audience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bab3812066914c70a809d9a6928eb5152023-08-03T06:08:52ZengJournal of Social Studies Education ResearchJournal of Social Studies Education Research1309-91082017-11-0183238248Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade LevelMarina Solnyshkina0Radif Zamaletdinov1Ludmila Gorodetskaya2Azat Gabitov3Kazan Federal UniversityKazan Federal University Lomonosov Moscow State University -Kazan Federal UniversityThe article presents the results of an exploratory study of the use of T.E.R.A., an automated tool measuring text complexity and readability based on the assessment of five text complexity parameters: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion and deep cohesion. Aimed at finding ways to utilize T.E.R.A. for selecting texts with specific parameters we selected eight academic texts with similar Flesch-Kincaid Grade levels and contrasted their complexity parameters scores to find how specific parameters correlate with each other. In this article we demonstrate the correlations between text narrativity and word concreteness, abstractness of the studied texts and Flesch – Kincaid Grade Level. We also confirm that cohesion components do not correlate with Flesch –Kincaid Grade Level. The findings indicate that text parameters utilized in T.E.R.A. contribute to better prediction of text characteristics than traditional readability formulas.The correlations between the text complexity parameters values identified are viewed as beneficial for developing a comprehensive approach to selection of academic texts for a specific target audience.https://www.jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/view/225text complexityt.e.r.a.syntactic simplicitynarrativityreadabilitytexts analysis |
| spellingShingle | Marina Solnyshkina Radif Zamaletdinov Ludmila Gorodetskaya Azat Gabitov Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Journal of Social Studies Education Research text complexity t.e.r.a. syntactic simplicity narrativity readability texts analysis |
| title | Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level |
| title_full | Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level |
| title_short | Evaluating Text Complexity and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level |
| title_sort | evaluating text complexity and flesch kincaid grade level |
| topic | text complexity t.e.r.a. syntactic simplicity narrativity readability texts analysis |
| url | https://www.jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/view/225 |
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