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Table 2 Text analysis of reading passages

From: Test format effects: a componential approach to second language reading

 

Text W

Text S

Genre

Expository

Expository

Text structure

Description

Description

Title

Lake water

Breathing during sleep

Number of words

737

709

Readability

Flesch reading ease score (0–100)

51.53

45.91

Flesch-Kincaid grade level (0–12)

12.18

12.04

Coh-Metrix L2 readability

13.54

12.05

Vocabulary complexity

K1+K2 word percentage

84.05

80.40

AWL percentage

7.04

8.04

Type and token ratio

0.41

0.40

Syntactic complexity

Left embeddedness, words before main verb, mean

6.10

6.47

Mean number of modifiers per noun-phrase

1.04

0.97

 

Sentence syntax similarity, all combinations, across paragraphs, mean

0.054

0.085