Journalism Quarterly · 1956 · 140 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesEnglishLinguisticsPsycholinguisticsReading ComprehensionDiscourse ComprehensionLanguage AssessmentReadingReading InstructionText ComprehensionCloze ProcedureIndividual Learner DifferencesLearner Individual DifferencesSpoken DiscourseText Difficulty Analysis
A technique first presented as a way of testing the readability of English prose has been found to have many additional uses. It also works in Korean and with spoken materials. Further, it indexes individual differences in comprehension, intelligence and knowledge; and it gauges the “entropy” of prose context.