The Leading as a Factor of Readability: Development of the Methodology for Educational Use

AbstractThe work is dedicated to the development of methodology for assessing the readability on paper substrates (as textbook samples) and laptop screens (as web content samples) and analyze the influence of leading on the reading speed. New approach: the readability was assessed by the continuous reading speed of dissociated texts on paper substrates and laptop screen. The research was conducted on the sample of 100 student age persons in Ufa city, Russian Federation. It is found that the dependence of continuous texts reading speed on the paper substrates and laptop screens from the leading has a maximum in range of 1.6–2.2