[按:估量作品可读性的方式,主要有三种:①教师判断;②用填充测验检查理解程度;③根据一些语言要素的计数,用可读性统计公式进行计算。下面专门介绍第三种方法。] 可读性统计方法研究表明,对作品的语言难度起主要作用的因素有两个:其一是句法的复杂性(根据以单词,字母或音节为单位的平均长度和从句与单词之比来估量);其二是单词的难度(根据以 [By: To assess the readability of works, there are three main ways: ① teachers judge; ② filling test to check the degree of understanding; ③ according to the number of language elements of the count, with readable statistical formula for calculation. The following describes a third method. ] Statistical Methods for Readability Studies have shown that there are two main factors that contribute to the linguistic difficulty of a work: one is the syntactic complexity (based on the average length of words, letters or syllables and the ratio of clauses to words Estimate); the second is the difficulty of the word (based on