Enhancing older adults' reading comprehension
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Discourse Processes
- Vol. 16 (4) , 405-428
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01638539309544847
Abstract
Syntactic measures, as well as measures of sentence content, were used with hierarchical multiple regression techniques to investigate older adults’ reading comprehension. Older adults’ reading difficulty, as measured by a test of comprehension and words‐per‐minute reading rates, appears to be due to the use of propositionally dense sentences and complex syntactic structures. This analysis provides clear guidelines for the preparation of prose materials targeted for older readers.Keywords
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