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Text classification and gradation in Arabic textbooks
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Text classification and text gradation are important for language teachers. Profiling and readability studies examine textual and linguistic features that determine text difficulty. Arabic, as an under-resourced language, suffers from a lack of such studies which results in material developers and textbook writers relying on their intuitions and experiences in selecting appropriate texts. At the classroom level, teachers often supplement or adapt the texts they use to suit their students’ developmental stages. However, they often do this based on their intuition and experience as well. This study aims to sensitise material developers and particularly teachers to a range of textual, linguistic and contextual features that affect text difficulty so, they can make informed decisions about the suitability of the texts they use and how to adapt and/or supplement them. Although this is most important for teachers of under-resourced languages such as Arabic; the study will be useful for teachers of resource-rich languages as well since research shows that even with systematically classified texts, discrepancies exist between texts and their assumed level.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mohamed, S.
- Affiliations
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mohamed, Salwa
- ORCID
- Mohamed, Salwa
- Venue
- The Language Learning Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2023-05-26
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 629-649
- ISSN
- 0957-1736 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-2167
- OpenAlex
- W4378472039
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 1.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (vor)
- Locations
- Language Learning Journal (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Arabic Language Education Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Text Readability and Simplification
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Keywords
- text classification, Arabic language textbooks, text complexity, readability, low-resource languages, textbook adaptation, language teaching materials, Arabic language teaching
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