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  2. Readability - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability

    In Elizabethan times, the average sentence was 50 words long while in Sherman's modern time, it was 23 words long. Sherman's work established that: Literature is a subject for statistical analysis. Shorter sentences and concrete terms help people to make sense of what is written. Speech is easier to understand than text.

  3. Easy read - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Read

    Easy read is a method of presenting written information to make it easier to understand for people with difficulty reading. Easy read advocates sentences of no more than ten to fifteen words, with each sentence having just one idea and one verb. Active sentences are used instead of passive sentences. Easy read is closely edited to express ideas ...

  4. Plain language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_language

    Sentences should be kept short, and only include necessary information. [5] A long, verbose sentence tends to present too much information at once, and blurs its main point. [10] The text should be direct and concise, and have an easy flow to it. [5] The chosen vocabulary must remain simple and familiar. [10]

  5. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_comprehension

    There are factors that, once discerned, make it easier for the reader to understand the written text. One of such is the genre, like folktales, historical fiction, biographies or poetry. Each genre has its own characteristics for text structure that once understood helps the reader comprehend it.

  6. Language power - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Power

    Communication ability is the competence to speaking to be understood and listening to understand. LPT draws from and supports ideas from language knowledge, understanding there is a pragmatic and social structure that needs to be in place for successful language learning ...since conversation is the most fundamental means of conducting human ...

  7. Word recognition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_recognition

    For example, a computer can now mimic a child's learning progress and induce general language rules when exposed to a list of words with only a limited number of explanations. Nevertheless, as no universal model has yet been agreed upon, the generalizability of word recognition models and its simulations may be limited.