읽기 텍스트 난이도 측정법 연구

A Study of Text Difficulty Analysis on the Korean reading materials

This study was started with the following question; how can we recognize readily that this text is proper for a certain class as an educational material. It is required to prepare the criteria of identifying the eligible reading text for the student who has the different level and the different purpose. The purpose of this study is to suggest the easy way to judge the text difficulty, which helps the teachers decide to bring this text to their classroom or not. For the purpose of the study, the analysis on the texts from the existing reading materials for the university KAP students and the quantitative measurement about the vocabulary, the specific expressions and the length of the each sentences from the texts were performed. Also the survey of the 100-students and the 16-teachers about the difficulty of the 9 texts selected the above analysis and measurement was conducted. According to the analysis and the survey, the formula of the vocabulary and the expression is effective to find the text difficulty. It is found that the 25~30 vocabulary index and the 10~15 expression index are right for the university KAP students. Based on this result, it is possible to establish readability index system for each level.