Fry文章难度测试公式的有效性及与英语阅读教学的联系

一篇文章的难度是影响学生阅读理解的重要因素之一。日常阅读教学选材的难度控制和阅读考试的难度控制是教师急切需要掌握的技术手段。在实用语言学的研究领域中，语言学家提出了一些测试文章难度的公式。探讨这些公式对于高职高专英语阅读教学是否具有指导意义，这是我们试验的目的。通过试验证实，Fry提出的文章难度测试公式对于中国高职高专现行的教材具有可靠性、易行性和较高的可信度。

Assessing Validity of Fry's Readability Formula and Implications for English Reading Teaching

In response to the task of selecting and providing appropriate materials, the past decades have seen numerous attempts to develop and improve ways and devices to estimate readability of texts. Readability of a particular article can indicate the easiness or difficulty of it and therefore direct teachers' selection of materials predict how learners will understand the materials to some extent. Two preliminary-scale experiments prove that Fry's Graph is comparatively more accurate in estimating the present teaching materials.