Cohesive Readability of Expository Texts and Reading Comprehension. Students of Different Proficiency Levels in Focus

      Аннотация: The present work investigates the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners. Moreover, it sought to see in which level of language proficiency participants are more sensitive to reduction of cohesive readability of expository texts. A process of data collection and data analysis was carried out. By application apt software a series of results were obtained; first, there is a positive relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension ability of EFL university students. Second, the results showed that language proficiency and cohesive readability level are significantly related as far as the effect on comprehension of expository texts is considered.The result of this study would be useful by grading expository texts on several dimensions of language and discourse, specifically about cohesive readability facet, and for matching texts to particular classes of readers.

Ключевые слова: Cohesion, Expository text, language proficiency, readability, reading comprehension