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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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Main Authors: Mat Daud, Nuraihan, Hassan, Haslina, Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2013
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H61.8 Communication of information
PJ6001 Arabic
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/1/Table_of_Content.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/2/113.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/
http://ict4m.org/
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spelling my.iium.irep.309832013-08-04T18:38:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/ Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype Mat Daud, Nuraihan Hassan, Haslina Abdul Aziz, Normaziah H61.8 Communication of information PJ6001 Arabic 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. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/1/Table_of_Content.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/2/113.pdf Mat Daud, Nuraihan and Hassan, Haslina and Abdul Aziz, Normaziah (2013) Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype. In: The 4th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M), 25-27 Mar 2013, Rabat, Moroco. http://ict4m.org/
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language English
English
topic H61.8 Communication of information
PJ6001 Arabic
spellingShingle H61.8 Communication of information
PJ6001 Arabic
Mat Daud, Nuraihan
Hassan, Haslina
Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mat Daud, Nuraihan
Hassan, Haslina
Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
author_facet Mat Daud, Nuraihan
Hassan, Haslina
Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
author_sort Mat Daud, Nuraihan
title Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
title_short Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
title_full Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
title_fullStr Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
title_full_unstemmed Corpus-based readability formula for Arabic texts: a prototype
title_sort corpus-based readability formula for arabic texts: a prototype
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/1/Table_of_Content.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/2/113.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/30983/
http://ict4m.org/
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