Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research (ISSN : 0975-7384)

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Original Articles: 2016 Vol: 8 Issue: 4

Application of Coh-Metrix 2.0 in Foreign Language Teaching and Research

Abstract

Coh-Metrix2.0 is an online text analysis tool developed by the applied linguists in University of Memphis, which can perform accurate measurement of the readability of the text, vocabulary, syntax, text base and other aspects. It can be used in various aspects of foreign language teaching and research, such as the choice of reading material, reading tasks validity and verification. This paper describes the development motivation and application prospects of the tool, and takes the related project on English reading tasks of Ministry of Education of China as an example to verify the validity of the tool. This paper also introduced the details of the operation and the application of the tool.