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Download full textFerguson, Gibson; Maclean, Joan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991
This study is the first stage of a wider enquiry into alternative ways of assessing the readability of specialist texts. The interest in assessing these texts arose from the need to grade 60 medical journal articles for an individualized English-as-a-Foreign-Language reading scheme for doctors. The study reports on an investigation of subjective…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability
