An Exploratory Study on the Easability of Reading Tests for English Majors Band 4 (TEM-4) and Band 8 (TEM-8)

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10.2991/icsshe-16.2016.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

easability, Coh-metrix, TEM-4, TEM-8

Abstract

This paper aims to figure out the easability level of the reading texts in English Majors Band 4 (TEM-4) and Band 8 (TEM-8) from 2000 to 2014 by using corpus analysis software Coh-Metrix Version 3.0 and statistical analysis software SPSS 19.0. The easability features are analyzed with details in order to find some strategies and criteria for the selection of reading texts as well as the determination of text easability level in language testing. We hope that the results of this study can provide some theoretical database for the improvement of future language construct testing.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shang-chun Zeng
AU  - Ying Shen
PY  - 2016/07
DA  - 2016/07
TI  - An Exploratory Study on the Easability of Reading Tests for English Majors Band 4 (TEM-4) and Band 8 (TEM-8)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 148
EP  - 151
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-16.2016.38
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-16.2016.38
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