Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
DIFFICULTY IN ENGLISH READING TEXTS COMPREHENSION
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2017
Языканглийский
  • Bezuglova Olga Andreevna, author
  • Ilyasova Liliya Galievna, author
  • Kuznecova Anastasiya Aleksandrovna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Anastasia A. Kuznetsova, Lilia G. Ilyasova, Olga A. Bezuglova, Saida A. Arbarova. Difficulty In English Reading Texts Comprehension // Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods, Vol. 7, Issue 12, December 2017, pp. 19-28
    Annotation The article presents the results of the research into reading comprehension difficulties in high school, determined by both subjective and objective factors. The complexity and difficulty of school English coursebook reading texts were analysed with the help of computer-based online programmes; Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid formulae. According to the research results, it is important to select educational texts paying attention to their quantitative parameters, difficulty and complexity, which must be increasing gradually. This disciplines, motivates and helps to develop cognitive abilities of students, thus improving reading comprehension. The obtained results were proved by the experiment aimed at determining the difficulty of school reading text perception, which indicated that difficulty of the text depends not only on its complexity, but also on the reader's preparedness
    Keywords text complexity/difficulty, readability formulae, educational texts, reading comprehension, cognitive abilities, motivation
    The name of the journal Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods
    URL http://mjltm.org/files/cd_papers/r_459_171218152555.pdf
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