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The present study aimed to investigate the readability of reading passages in elementary school textbooks with focus on lexical, syntactic, and cohesion features. Toward this end, the relevant features of reading passages in the five English textbooks currently in use in elementary schools were analyzed. Comparisons of the textbooks for different grades were also made in terms of these features. In lexical features, significant differences were observed between grades in a way that readability decreases as grades advance. As for syntactic features, the textbooks were found to have areas for improvement, especially in noun phrase density. At the cohesion level, little consistency in progression in terms of cohesion features was observed between the textbooks for each grade. These findings suggest a need to give a more systematic attention to cohesive features in the process of developing and evaluating textbooks for different grades.

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I. Introduction
 II. Literature Review
  2.1 English Textbooks
  2.2 Readability of Passages in English Textbooks
 III. Method
  3.1 Materials
  3.2 Coh-Metrix Analysis
 IV. Results and Discussion
  4.1 Descriptive Features
  4.2 Lexical Features
  4.3 Syntactic Features
  4.4 Cohesion
  4.5 Readability
 V. Conclusion
 References
 Abstract

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저자

• Byung-kyoo Ahn [ Chonnam National University ] The first author
• Yumi Ma [ Chonnam National University ] The second author

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820