"Language complexity" refers to the level of difficulty and intricacy present in a language. It involves factors such as the number of words, grammar rules, sentence structures, and pronunciation complexity. A language can be simpler or more complex depending on these aspects, making it easier or more challenging to learn and understand.
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• The Common Core asks teachers to assign texts that
provide language complexity appropriate to the grade level, but significant proportions of teachers — particularly in the elementary grades — are still assigning texts based on students» present reading prowess.
Retelling stories: A strategy for improving young children's comprehension, concept of story structure and
oral language complexity.
Jenkins» ability to articulate in
everyday language the complexities of the electricity system have helped to get word of his research, and expertise, out beyond the lab.
A person may speak two or three languages and still not understand
the language complexities and disparities of a culture.
Question writers and reviewers can verify that there is enough diversity in the amount of
language complexity used across questions and that the level of language complexity in an individual question is appropriate for the question's purpose.
Smarter Balanced is exploring the psychometric and statistical analysis that can be completed with
the language complexity scores.
Smarter Balanced partnered with WIDA to help question writers and reviewers examine
the language complexity level used in the Consortium's questions.