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I should clarify from my previous reply that they were 35 first-year mainstream college textbooks that were FK Grade 11.

Yes, YellowMoon, that's what I'm wondering. The situation that I've recently encountered happened with one of our instructors in a intermediate-level ESL reading course. He was concerned that our students would soon need to read at a college level (13th grade) but currently his students were only re...

I’m interested in determining the readability of passages for ESL students. Flesch-Kincade (FK) can give a grade level, but I wonder how useful that really is. A FK Grade 9 which has abstract ideas and counter-intuitive ones will probably be more challenging than an FK Grade 12 one with more concr...

I graduated from the School for International Training with an MAT in 1982. It is an excellent program. It's a great mixture of practical and theoretical. It's had a huge influence on me as an ESL instructor, program coordinator and published author of 9 textbooks. I know for a fact that I've been h...