Lix and Rix: Variations on a Little-Known Readability Index.

Jonathan Anderson

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or Lix for short (Bjbrnsson, 1968), and has been extensively trialled. The lack of reading information on Lix is probably because its development was reported in Swedish. It has not been discussed in any of the major recent readability reviews (Gilliland, 1972; Harrison, 1980; Klare, 1974). However, after I reported the application of Lix to French, German, Greek, and English texts (Anderson, 1981) the response from classroom teachers was such that I conducted a more

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