Lexical Coverage and Readability of Science Textbooks for English-Medium Instruction Secondary Schools in Hong Kong

Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission of academic knowledge often relies, especially in the early stages of academic learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates the text difficulty of science textbooks used in secondary English-medium ins...

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Main Authors: Jingjing Hu, Xuesong(Andy) Gao, Xuyan Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-03-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211001867