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A Publisher's Attempts to Make Its Content-Field Textbooks More Readable: A Case Study in Social Studies.

Williams, Ray – 1982

A British publisher conducted a readability study of its English language content area texts being used in foreign countries to determine how the texts could be made more readable. A cloze procedure assessment of a secondary school Hong Kong social studies series indicated that the English texts were too difficult for 91% of the pupils tested.…

Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language)