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Re-reading readability
A critique of Fry’s formula
- Source: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Volume 12, Issue 2, Jan 1989, p. 107 - 120
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Abstract
This brief article critically examines the assumptions and shortcomings of lexico-syntactically based measures of readability, using the popular Fry’s readability scale as its prime example. Thereafter, it explores an alternative semantic approach to the issue by re-focusing upon three crucial cohesive factors in the development of textual meaning that Fry’s formula ignores, to its cost.
© 1989 John Benjamins Publishing Company