영어 텍스트 수정이 텍스트 난이도와 응집성에 미치는 영향

Effects of modifications to English texts on their readability and cohesion

There are ongoing debates on whether modified materials are better than the original ones. In this respect, the purpose of the study is to compare the modified texts found in high school English textbooks and their originals through the Coh-Metrix program. Among 60, 8 factors measuring text difficulty and cohesion were selected, and 10 reading passages out of 7 textbooks were compared with their originals. The results revealed that six out of 10 textbook passages were made easier, while four were slightly more difficult than the originals, and that half of the passages had more connectives after modification, and half had less. This suggests that not only lowering the difficulty of the texts but making them more cohesive are an important factor to be considered in the process of modification.