A new study found that automatic text simplification made English text more comprehensible for second language learners beyond a certain level of reading proficiency. Credit: Dennis Murphy Odo from ...

Are plummeting literacy skills the new pandemic among young learners? Dozens of studies over the past year have shown alarming drops in the percentage of students meeting reading benchmarks at the ...

For students learning a second or foreign language, text is often simplified to ensure that they can comprehend it well enough to understand the core message. Usually, complicated text in a foreign ...