Readability of Farsi Textbooks in Primary School: First to Sixth Grades

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 payeme Noor Tehran

2 Tehran. Payame Noor

3 Qazvin. Payame Noor

Abstract

Reading is a skill that Iranian students learn it in the first to sixth grades in primary schools by Farsi textbooks. Readability is one of the qualities should be considered in textbooks, because it helps learners to read and understand effectively. Different researches have been done about textbooks readability, but in this paper all texts in sixth grades of primary school have been investigated. The results of evaluating of texts based on Fog, Fry and Flesh Standard were two folds: 1. according to Flesh Standard, the texts were easy but based on Fry and Fog they were suitable for one or two upper level; 2. there was no standard for texts ordering, because in some grades more difficult texts have been placed prior to easier ones.

Keywords

References

Chen. J. (2012). A survey of new readability formulas. Us-china foreign language. 10 (12). 1779-1783
Dubay, W.H. (2004). The principles of Readability. Impact Information, Costa Mesa, California. Retrieved from: http:// www.impactinformation.com/impactinfo/readability 02. Pdf.
-Owen, J. L. Dudley, J. E. (2007). A content analysis of the treatment ofinformative and reinforcing feedback in contemporary communication theory text book. American communication journal. Number 9
Macdonald-Ross, M. (1978). Language in text. Review of Research in Education, 6: 229-275
Marnell. G. (2008). Measuring readability: Part 1: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Southern communicator.14. 12-18
Mullis, Ina V.S & elt (2017). PIRLS 2016 International Results in Reading. Timms and Pirlz international center
Tunmer, William E (2017). The cognitive foundations of learning to read: A conceptual framework for teaching beginning reading. Institute of education Messy University

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 11 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 20 December 2019
  • Accept Date: 01 January 2020

Share

How to cite

Statistics