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Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...

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Text readability encompasses two aspects, namely, ease of comprehension and ease of processing (in relation to the effort required for reading comprehension). Researchers at University of Tsukuba ...

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THE average American finds it difficult to explain why the foreigner says “ze” or “de,” rather than the perfectly natural (to him) “the" until he tries to enunciate an elegant French “rue” or gets his ...