Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill: The Roles of Text Readability and Question Difficulty

Textual complexity adjustments to the English reading comprehension test for undergraduate EFL students

“…Poor management of text difficulty level risks the construction of a reading comprehension test consisting of texts mismatched to the test-taker's English proficiency level. Most text readability studies have focused only on the interaction between textual complexity and readers' reading comprehension as individuals [ 40 , [44] , [45] , [46] , [47] ] and between the textual complexity of school textbooks and texts of the national examination test [ 41 , 42 , 48 ]. The gap that this study attempts to fill pertains to the lack of attention to the interaction between the textual complexity of passages in a reading comprehension test and item difficulty in the test.…”