Srozumitelnost českého odborného a úředního textu — proč se jí zabývat a jak ji měřit

• Authors: Chromý Jan , Cinková Silvie , Šamánková Jana

Title variants

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Readability of professional and administrative texts in Czech — why to study it and how to measure it?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Text comprehension is one of the key skills that are learned during the school years. On the one hand, reading literacy is fundamental for successful comprehension, on the other hand, comprehension success is determined by textual features, i.e. its readability. Text readability thus presents an important issue — from both the reception (people may not be able to comprehend a text fully due to its low readability) and production perspective (people may not be able to produce a well readable text). The current study presents an experimental method for measuring readability of Czech texts of various genres based on the triangulation of (1) the rate of correct answers on comprehension questions, (2) intra-textual features, and (3) subjective assessment of text readability. The method is discussed in depth and individual steps are illustrated on an example of a research in progress under the project Linguistic Factors of Readability in Czech Administrative and Educational Texts.

Keywords

CS

srozumitelnost; čtenářská gramotnost; porozumění textu; experimentální metodologie porozumění textu

EN

readability; reading literacy; text comprehension; experimental methodology

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 38-52

Contributors

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Chromý Jan

• Ústav českého jazyka a teorie komunikace FF UK

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Cinková Silvie

• Ústav formální a aplikované lingvistiky MFF UK

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Šamánková Jana