The Scope of the Study The Significance of the Study
4. To Other Researchers There are still so many title textbooks that are offered by other publishers.
The other researchers can use them as the subject of the research especially for those who are interested in studying about the readability. The other researcher
can use the other formula besides the Dale-Chall readability formula and other techniques besides cloze test. The writer hopes that this research can give more
information for further research.
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