Abstract This study investigated to what extent the complexity of EMI university reading materials matches EMI students’ reading proficiency. Text complexity and student proficiency were compared utilizing the Lexile© Framework for Reading text measures and reading scores based on reading test results, student questionnaire responses, and interviews with EMI lecturers. The results of the study indicate that, on average, Lexile text measures of EMI reading materials match students’ Lexile reading scores well. However, the analyses also show that there are wide disparities between texts in terms of difficulty and students in terms proficiency. The questionnaire and interview data show that factors such as students’ topical knowledge, text le...
Proficiency descriptors and testing instruments for basic academic reading in German. German reading...
In the context of testing and examination, the assessment of texts presents a particular challenge. ...
The research identifies the complexity level of eight texts from Spotlight 11 used in Russian TEFL t...
Reading is an essential skill to be mastered, especially by university students and it is the lectur...
Text complexity as a research problem is equally relevant in linguistics and education since its sol...
The volume explores the relation between the complexity of written texts and the difficulty of readi...
In this study of the effects of text familiarity and task types on University students ’ English pro...
The rapidly growing phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) has important implications for la...
This project examined academic reading in two contrasting English-medium instruction (EMI) universit...
Readability is an indicator that used to describe whether a text more or less available to the reade...
This article reports on an exploratory study that aimed at describing and comparing a range of lingu...
This paper aims to show several factors of affecting reading testing. When looking at reading with r...
In this study, various proficiency classification methods are explored in order to describe the rele...
The observed low reading proficiency among Indonesian students can be attributed to several variable...
Universities worldwide have recognized the significance of assessing students' language abilities to...
Proficiency descriptors and testing instruments for basic academic reading in German. German reading...
In the context of testing and examination, the assessment of texts presents a particular challenge. ...
The research identifies the complexity level of eight texts from Spotlight 11 used in Russian TEFL t...
Reading is an essential skill to be mastered, especially by university students and it is the lectur...
Text complexity as a research problem is equally relevant in linguistics and education since its sol...
The volume explores the relation between the complexity of written texts and the difficulty of readi...
In this study of the effects of text familiarity and task types on University students ’ English pro...
The rapidly growing phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) has important implications for la...
This project examined academic reading in two contrasting English-medium instruction (EMI) universit...
Readability is an indicator that used to describe whether a text more or less available to the reade...
This article reports on an exploratory study that aimed at describing and comparing a range of lingu...
This paper aims to show several factors of affecting reading testing. When looking at reading with r...
In this study, various proficiency classification methods are explored in order to describe the rele...
The observed low reading proficiency among Indonesian students can be attributed to several variable...
Universities worldwide have recognized the significance of assessing students' language abilities to...
Proficiency descriptors and testing instruments for basic academic reading in German. German reading...
In the context of testing and examination, the assessment of texts presents a particular challenge. ...
The research identifies the complexity level of eight texts from Spotlight 11 used in Russian TEFL t...