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Language Testing in Asia

Table 2 Reading texts: indicators of specificity

From: Exploring the role of language knowledge and background knowledge in reading comprehension of specific-purpose tests in higher education

 

Economics

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Sentences with passive

0%

17%

30%

Flesch Readability Indexa

61.4

27.3

32.3

Sentences with participles as attributes

0%

17%

20%

  1. aLow number difficult text
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