The Assessment of Readability by Noun Frequency Counts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10721997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warwick B Elley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Reading Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-0553 • E-ISSN: 1936-2722 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/747147 |
| OpenAlex | W2070303357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
DESCRIBES AND illustrates a new method of assessing the readability of children's reading material using a word frequency count to rate the nouns in a given passage. The average frequency level of the nouns was used to provide a highly valid estimate of reading difficulty. Five independent validity studies are reported comparing the proposed method with conventional techniques for assessing readability. The noun frequency approach proved consistently superior in predicting a criterion of reading difficulty based on the pooled estimates of teachers' and pupils' ratings. Suggestions were made for applying the method in countries which have appropriate word frequency counts
Linguistics · Noun · Readability · Digital Accessibility for Disabilities · Philosophy · Psychology · Text Readability and Simplification
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |