Vocabulary and Readability: How Knowing Word Meanings Affects Comprehension.

The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and text readability is a robust one. Vocabulary knowledge has consistently been found to be the foremost predictor of a text's difficulty. However, the relationship is a complex one. Procedures used by readability formulae to assess the vocabulary facto

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