Print Email Facebook Twitter Leesbaarheid: An Empirical Exploration of the Applicability of Dutch Traditional Readability Formulas to Texts Targeting Children Title Leesbaarheid: An Empirical Exploration of the Applicability of Dutch Traditional Readability Formulas to Texts Targeting Children Author Voogt, Joris (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Pera, M.S. (mentor) Murukannaiah, P.K. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science and Engineering Project CSE3000 Research Project Date 2023-07-03 Abstract Readability plays a vital role in the transfer of knowledge or information. This is especially true for children who are more than anyone gaining new knowledge every day, yet their reading abilities are still in active development. Although readability assessment of children's literature is an active topic of research in many different languages, research into the assessment capabilities of well-known Dutch traditional readability formulas on texts aimed at Dutch children remains in its infancy. In this paper, we explore the performance of four well-known Dutch traditional readability formulas when applied to different types of texts targeting Dutch children. More specifically, we examine the applicability of the Flesch-Douma, Leesindex A, CLIB and CILT formulas on excerpts of school materials, books, and media for children aged 6-14 years old. Outcomes from this empirical exploration reveal that the readability formulas do not perform similarly across reading materials. As a result, choosing a readability formula based on both the type of reading material and a child's age can improve the readability estimation, which in turn can help connect children to understandable resources. Subject readability assessmentreadability formulaschildrendutch To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:eade26cd-37de-4815-9c35-85662821156d Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2023 Joris Voogt Files PDF Leesbaarheid_CSE3000_RP.pdf 261.83 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:eade26cd-37de-4815-9c35-85662821156d/datastream/OBJ/view