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Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin

ESL instructors tend to rely on their judgment in estimating the difficulty level of reading passages for their learners. This commonsense method, despite being drawn from experience, gut feeling and intrinsic knowledge of the learners’ ability, is neither efficient nor objective. A more objective m...

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Main Author: Aziz Hussin, Anealka
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Published: UiTM Press 2015
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/59606/1/59606.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.596062022-05-17T00:17:21Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/59606/ Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin Aziz Hussin, Anealka ESL instructors tend to rely on their judgment in estimating the difficulty level of reading passages for their learners. This commonsense method, despite being drawn from experience, gut feeling and intrinsic knowledge of the learners’ ability, is neither efficient nor objective. A more objective method is available such as using readability formulas to estimate the difficulty level of the passages. One of the highly reliable readability formulas which have been validated to be used in an ESL/EFL context is the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula. The FRE formula has a difficulty scale that ranges from 0 (the least difficult) to 100 (the most difficult), which is rather broad and general. Therefore, it was the intention of this study to refine the FRE difficulty scale for the use of a specific group of learners and identify additional predictors of passage difficulty to enhance the ability of the formula in estimating the difficulty level of reading passages. To do that, the study replicated Vogel and Washburne’s (1928) process of developing modern readability formula. UiTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/59606/1/59606.pdf (2015) Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin. International Journal on E-Learning and Higher Education (IJELHE), 3 (8). pp. 123-142. ISSN 1985-8620 https://journalined.uitm.edu.my/
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description ESL instructors tend to rely on their judgment in estimating the difficulty level of reading passages for their learners. This commonsense method, despite being drawn from experience, gut feeling and intrinsic knowledge of the learners’ ability, is neither efficient nor objective. A more objective method is available such as using readability formulas to estimate the difficulty level of the passages. One of the highly reliable readability formulas which have been validated to be used in an ESL/EFL context is the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula. The FRE formula has a difficulty scale that ranges from 0 (the least difficult) to 100 (the most difficult), which is rather broad and general. Therefore, it was the intention of this study to refine the FRE difficulty scale for the use of a specific group of learners and identify additional predictors of passage difficulty to enhance the ability of the formula in estimating the difficulty level of reading passages. To do that, the study replicated Vogel and Washburne’s (1928) process of developing modern readability formula.
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title Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin
title_short Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin
title_full Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin
title_fullStr Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin
title_full_unstemmed Refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate ESL learners / Anealka Aziz Hussin
title_sort refining the flesch reading ease formula for intermediate and high-intermediate esl learners / anealka aziz hussin
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