Written Language Readability Measure

A Written Language Readability Measure is a written language leasure of the general Reading Comprehension that a reader would need.

• AKA: Text Readability.
• Context:
  • It can be correlated with:
    • Sentence Length.
    • Word Frequency.
  • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Text Understandability.
• See: Level, Reading Comprehension Level, Text Simplification.

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References

1997

• (Pilypas, 1997) ⇒ Helen Pilypas. (1997). “The Use of the Computer as a Tool for Testing Reading Comprehension." BEd dissertation, School of Education, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Readability and reading comprehension can be seen to be related concepts. While readability is characterised by the degree of comprehension with which a text is read, the ability of a reader to comprehend a text is influenced by the text's readability. In order to select a text for assessing reading comprehension, the readability of that text needs to be appropriate for the reading ability of the target population. Determining readability of a text can be quite complex. Rye (1982, p. 14) suggested that there are eleven major, often difficult to measure interacting factors (see Figure 2.4) which influence readability.
  • Readability is an estimate of the difficulty of a text. Formulas, which include factors such as sentence length, word length and word frequency have been developed to calculate readability.

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