LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:7 July 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Role of Text Readability in Engineering Students’
Reading Comprehension

Dr. P. Madhumathi & Dr. Arijit Ghosh
VIT University

Abstract

The ability of comprehension reflects the capability of deployment of reading skills and strategies during reading. It is also evident that proficiency in reading comprehension enhances the academic performance of the students. Thus, teaching and testing of reading comprehension has become compulsory for students from primary through tertiary level of education. Text readability is an essential technical aspect which needs to be accounted while selecting a passage for reading practice. However, majority of researchers around the world focus on the teaching and assessment of skills involved in reading comprehension but not the text readability. In an emerging area like English for Specific Purposes (ESP), the role of text readability contributes to the academic preparedness with reading ease. Thus, the study suggests the possible outcomes of using text readability while choosing a passage for teaching and assessment of engineering student’s academic reading.

Keywords: Text Readability, Flesch–Kincaid readability tests, Reading Comprehension, ESP, ELT

English for Specific Purposes

The growth of English for Specific Purposes as an essential concept of language learning and teaching started during post-war circumstances of a rapid globalizing community. The tremendous transcontinental expansion after globalization demanded a common medium of communication to flourish trade, commerce and technology which resulted in the need for the English language. The English which was then considered as the language of royalty and the elite had become the ‘work language’ for the majority of the people around the world. Thus the teaching and learning of English now became a more targeted, user oriented process resulting in subject specific language learning studies. The need for defining the appropriate competencies, skills and performances that is required for the employee to perform in particular occupations at their work place demanded the evolution of English for Specific Purposes.

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Dr. P. Madhumathi, & Dr. Arijit Ghosh
Assistant Professors
Department of English, SSL
VIT University
Vellore 632014
Tamilnadu
India
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