Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
This research aims to produce a readability formula for Arabic texts. There are already a few formulae used for measuring the readability level of English texts. Among them are Flesch, Gunning Fox and Dale-Chall formulae. Flesch Reading Ease scale is based on sentence length and the number of s...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English |
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2013
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| Summary: | This research aims to produce a readability
formula for Arabic texts. There are already a few formulae
used for measuring the readability level of English texts.
Among them are Flesch, Gunning Fox and Dale-Chall
formulae. Flesch Reading Ease scale is based on sentence
length and the number of syllables per hundred words,
Gunning Fox Index counts sentence length and percentage of
multi-syllabic words and Dale-Chall formula counts sentence
length and whether a word appears on a list of acceptable
words. However, Arabic has its own language rules. Hence
there is a need to develop a readability formula for Arabic.
This will greatly assist in the production of texts for
comprehension and for testing. A study on readability is
therefore crucial in the development of Arabic reading and
testing materials and also in language teaching and learning.
This paper will present a prototype of a readability formula
which is based on word frequency for calculating the level of
Arabic texts difficulty. |
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