A READABILITY SURVEY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS UNDP MATERIAL USING THE CLOZE PROCEDURE

As teachers, we all realise the importance of choosing material which our pupils can read and understand. If the material is too difficult, pupils may become frustrated and turn away from the topic. The teacher, therefore, in his new role as organiser, director, stimulator and evaluator of individual learning, must be aware of the problems associated with printed materials. In its generic sense, the term 'readability ' refers to the relative ease with which people can respond in various ways to passages of written prose. Historically, researchers have measured a variety of responses to index the readability of prose passages. The types of. responses have included measures of reader interest, reading speed, recall of the passage, proportion of correctly answered questions about the passage and proportion of cloze items answered correctly. 1 The objective of readability research is to find out the suitability of language used in thestudents ' instructional materials