Table 5 Regression analysis for predicting variables of EFL reading difficulty
From: Predicting the difficulty of EFL reading comprehension tests based on linguistic indices
Variables | β | r | t | p | R | R2 | ΔF | Sig. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(constant) | – | – | 2.67 | 0.010 | 0.346 | 0.120 | 2.672 | 0.06 |
Content word overlap | − 0.333 | − 0.344 | − 2.61 | 0.011 | ||||
Sentence syntax similarity | − 0.040 | − 0.127 | − 0.31 | 0.756 | ||||
CELEX frequency scores | − 0.003 | − 0.024 | − 0.02 | 0.981 |