Readability and Comprehensibility Analysis of the English Language Comprehension Passages of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Ghana

Abstract

IntroductionReadability entails linguistic characteristics of texts that are capable of influencing how a reader will successfully read and comprehend written information. There is a difference between readability and legibility. Legibility involves the actual ease through which a text can be read and understood. The readability level of a given text is a pointer towards the textual difficulty level of a text and the level of suitability of the text to the people of a given age or grade level who read it. For a given text, it is always fixed and does not change based on reader characteristics (