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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Effect of the Part of Speech Elements on Readability of Literary Texts in Secondary Vietnamese Textbooks
Như-Điệp Nguyễn1, An-Vinh Lương2, Điền Đinh2
(1. Department of Linguistics, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; 2. University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Abstract: Readability has been the theme which is crucial and interesting in the world since the nineteenth century up to the present time. These research results are highly applied in a lot of the social fields, such as the Readability formula in Microsoft Office or The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. In readability research, word is one of the unit in which its elements has been carefully investigated. Based on the comparison and contrast the elements effecting Readability on the “word” unit in English, we determine and select the part of speech in Vietnamese, having influences on readability; namely examining and evaluating readability of the part of speech in the proses in Vietnamese textbooks for secondary students from the results of the statistical data. Then, the survey results are investigated to find out the frequency as well as correlation of the part of speech in Vietnamese. Initially, the findings can assist writers, editors; especially teachers in editing documents, reforming textbooks, and building exam question banks of Vietnamese language for native Vietnamese in general and foreigners in particular.
Key words: readability, part of speech, Vietnamese textbooks, secondary students
