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ZHANG Rong-gen
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.05.004
Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai, China
This paper, by making a comparative Coh-Metrix analysis of two Vocational Colleges English textbooks, hopes to give some enlightenment on vocational college English teaching in China. The findings are that with smaller numbers of sentences in simpler structure and full of more familiar content words, the texts are easier to read, while with larger numbers of words, especially complex modifying noun phrases, in greater lexical diversity, the texts are more difficult to read. The final suggestion is that both textbooks can be used in graded English teaching atmosphere.
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