The Readability of Principles of Macroeconomics Textbooks

Autor/inn/en	Tinkler, Sarah; Woods, James
Titel	The Readability of Principles of Macroeconomics Textbooks
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 44 (2013) 2, S.178-191 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
DOI	10.1080/00220485.2013.770345
Schlagwörter	Macroeconomics; Textbooks; Readability; Computational Linguistics; Native Speakers; English (Second Language); Sentences; Textbook Evaluation; Textbook Research; Textbook Selection; Language Fluency + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Makroökonomie; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Lesbarkeit; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Muttersprachler; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Schulbuchforschung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz
Abstract	The authors evaluated principles of macroeconomics textbooks for readability using Coh-Metrix, a computational linguistics tool. Additionally, they conducted an experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk Web site in which participants ranked the readability of text samples. There was a wide range of scores on readability indexes both among textbooks and within textbooks. Results from the Mechanical Turk experiment revealed that the Flesch Reading Ease Index does not predict which samples readers will prefer, but readers do prefer samples that are thematically similar, as identified by Latent Semantic Analysis. There were differences in the responses of native and non-native-but-proficient English speakers to the text samples, suggesting that the intended audience is an important determinant of readability. (Contains 3 tables and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10