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An Analysis of Text Difficulty across Grades in Korean Middle School English Textbooks Using Coh-Metrix

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Jisu Ryu, Moongee Jeon

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This study aims to investigate the text difficulty of the reading materials of Korean middle school English textbooks with Coh-Metrix, a software developed by the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis to analyze the linguistic and psycholinguistic features of English text and textbooks with a wide range of indices on cohesion and language. In this study, the textbook corpus consisted of the text files extracted from 13 English textbooks. These files were used for analyzing the text difficulty among grades with Coh-Metrix. The Coh-Metrix indices selected for this study contained basic counts, word frequency, word features, lexical diversity, pronouns, connectives, readability, syntax complexity, syntax similarity, reference cohesion, semantic cohesion, and situation model measures. The results showed that there were significant differences among grades for basic counts, word features, first pronouns, causal and temporal connectives, readability, reference and semantic cohesion, the number of words before main verbs, syntactic similarity, and situation model measures. The differences among grades, however, were not significant for word frequency, lexical diversity, second and third person pronouns, additive connectives, and NP density measures. The findings have educational implications for textbook design and language learning for English learners.

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Abstract
Introduction
Previous Studies
English Textbooks in EFL Settings
Text Difficulty in Textbooks
Method
English Textbook Corpus for the Study
Corpus Construction and Analysis Tool
Results
Basic Counts
Word Frequency
Word Features
Lexical Diversity
Personal Pronouns
Connectives
Readability Indices
Reference Cohesion
Semantic Cohesion
Syntactic Complexity
Syntactic Similarity
Situation Model
Discussion and Conclusion
The Authors
References

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  • Jisu Ryu Konkuk University, South Korea
  • Moongee Jeon Konkuk University, South Korea

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