易读性研究概述

A Survey of Studies on Readability

易读性指文本易于阅读和理解的程度，解决易读性的关键问题是如何对文本的易读性进行科学准确的测量，它对阅读理论和阅读教学具有重要的实践意义。影响易读性的因素很多，除文本因素之外，还不能忽略读者和环境这两个重要因素。

Readability refers to the ease with which a text is read and understood. The study of readability is of great practical as well as theoretical significance. The key question here is how to measure the readability of a text scientifically and accurately. In this paper the author attempts to synthesize and comment on previous studies on readability and discuss the major factors which may influence readability, contending that in measuring readability not only text-related factors but also reader- related factors and aituational factors need to be considered.