Contents: A Corpus of Reading Comprehension Tests - Quantitative Investigation into the Complexity of the Texts of the Corpus - Text Complexity, Participant Identification and Cohesion in the Corpus - Assessing Test Difficulty: Data Analysis of Tests and Feedback Questionnaires.
The Author: Erik Castello is a tenured researcher in English Language and Translation and teaches English at the University of Padua, Italy. He holds a doctorate in English linguistics and his research interests include corpus linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, language testing, and discourse analysis.