Children who read for pleasure, as well information, do so because they have first learned the simple mechanics of reading. Once are in place, children seek out stories that interest to them. Reading engaging materials holds children. As readers encounter increasingly complex reading material, their comprehension and abilities increase. It is important children's literature not only entertainin...

Abstract The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between EFL learners’ anxiety and writing complexity. For the purpose of the study, 70 female learners, between 17 and 24 years old (mean=20) from Najm language school in Tehran participated in the study. The participants’ level of anxiety was measured using Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope’s Anxiety Questionnaire (1986) and th...

Abstract The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between EFL learners’ anxiety and writing complexity. For the purpose of the study, 70 female learners, between 17 and 24 years old (mean=20) from Najm language school in Tehran participated in the study. The participants’ level of anxiety was measured using Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope’s Anxiety Questionnaire (1986) and th...

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis complexity texts on material linguistic subcorpus English textbooks “English”, “Starlight” and “Rainbow English” for 11th grade. total volume sub-corpus acting as empirical research amounted to 36 (3955 word uses). One characteristics text is its readability. It depends degree words structures used in sentences, well such quantitative p...

We present a computational notion of Lexical Tightness that measures global cohesion of content words in a text. Lexical tightness represents the degree to which a text tends to use words that are highly inter-associated in the language. We demonstrate the utility of this measure for estimating text complexity as measured by US school grade level designations of texts. Lexical tightness strongl...