Applied Arabic Textbook Readability Level for University Students at Al-Balqa Applied University

Abstract

Readability is considered one of the main indicators of students' ability to understand reading texts. The purpose of this study was to define the level of Applied Arabic textbook readability for university students at Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan. In order to do so, Cloze Test was administrated on four texts that students didn't read before taken from the Applied Arabic textbook. A sample of (54) university students participated in the study. The results showed that the four texts were within the frustration level, as the students' results on the four texts ranged between (0.46-0.66). There were no statistically significant gender differences on the readability level; indicating that both male and female students are facing difficulty in reading and understanding the texts of books. The study suggested the need for experimentation of textbooks on students to determine their readability level before implementing them to students to be appropriate to students’ reading levels in order to address the problems students face while reading a text.