This analysis of the history, prospects, and problemsĀ of qualitative approaches to gauging text complexity appeared, along with several related articles, in a special issue, edited by Freddy and me, in 2014.
The state of the field: Qualitative analyses of text complexity. Pearson, P. D. & Hiebert, E. H. (2014)
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