Intelligibility analysis of narrative and expository texts of the Cloze Test of Reading Comprehension
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RReading is a fundamental skill in a literate society and is essential for academic development. However, in Brazil, students underperform in reading, which makes it essential to create instruments for assessment and action planning in this area. In addition to cognitive and individual factors, issues inherent to the text, such as genre and structure, also influence reading. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyse the characteristics of the words, syntactic structure and cohesion elements of the Reading Comprehension Cloze Test (RCCT) based on a comparison of RCCT-N (narrative text) and RCCT-E (expository text) using Coh-Metrix software. The results show that the RCCT-E is slightly more complex than the RCCT-N, as supported by the literature, but they also reinforce that reader characteristics should be into account when defining the difficulty of the text.
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