Readability Of ESL Picture Books In Malaysia
Predicting readability of a reading text for second language learners is important for teachers, educators, and other concerned parties to make sure the text matches targeted readers’ proficiency. Suitable reading materials would promote language development among readers, especially children. In...
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my-unisza-ir.50662022-02-06T02:55:49Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5066/ Readability Of ESL Picture Books In Malaysia Normah, Yusof Adlina, Ismail LB1501 Primary Education N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR Predicting readability of a reading text for second language learners is important for teachers, educators, and other concerned parties to make sure the text matches targeted readers’ proficiency. Suitable reading materials would promote language development among readers, especially children. In Malaysia nowadays, English story books for children which are published locally can be easily found in libraries or bookstores. However, the readability of these reading materials has remained uncovered. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the readability of Malaysian English children story books on five aspects (narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion and deep cohesion) as provided by the computational tool, Coh-Metrix Common Core Text Ease Readability Assessor (T.E.R.A). Ten local English children story books were selected as samples. It was found that the majority of the samples have high narrativity, syntactic simplicity, and word concreteness but average referential cohesion and deep cohesion. The result revealed that there is lack of attention given to the aspect of cohesion in children story books. This study recommends that children book writers consider the readability of ESL children story books to help children’s language development. 2016-01 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5066/1/FH02-FBK-17-10928.pdf Normah, Yusof and Adlina, Ismail (2016) Readability Of ESL Picture Books In Malaysia. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 1 (1). pp. 60-70. ISSN 0127-9386 |
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Predicting readability of a reading text for second language learners is important for teachers,
educators, and other concerned parties to make sure the text matches targeted readers’ proficiency.
Suitable reading materials would promote language development among readers, especially children.
In Malaysia nowadays, English story books for children which are published locally can be easily found
in libraries or bookstores. However, the readability of these reading materials has remained uncovered.
Hence, this study aimed to investigate the readability of Malaysian English children story books on five
aspects (narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion and deep cohesion)
as provided by the computational tool, Coh-Metrix Common Core Text Ease Readability Assessor
(T.E.R.A). Ten local English children story books were selected as samples. It was found that the
majority of the samples have high narrativity, syntactic simplicity, and word concreteness but average
referential cohesion and deep cohesion. The result revealed that there is lack of attention given to the
aspect of cohesion in children story books. This study recommends that children book writers consider
the readability of ESL children story books to help children’s language development. |
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