“…IReST contains 10 paragraphs of German texts (132 words) which match the materials for sixth grade reading, in terms of the difficulty and linguistic/syntactic complexity, according to the theory of Gibson. IReST Study Group adapted the texts into 16 different languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, Finnish, Fench, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese/Brazilian, Swedish, Slovenian, Spanish, Russian and Turkish), verified by the linguists and native speakers of the respective languages, to maintain similar linguistic complexity which was compatible with the original German version (Brussee et al, 2014;Hahn et al, 2006;Messias et al, 2008;Trauzettel-Klosinski & Dietz, 2012). However, each native speaker of the respective languages showed different reading speed.…”