Breaking comprehension barriers through Easy Language – A thesis on accessible communication and Italian ‘Lingua facile’
In 2020, Luisa Carrer completed her MA in Applied Linguistics at the ZHAW and was awarded the 2020 Lionbridge Prize for an outstanding master thesis. Her thesis has now been published in the ZHAW Graduate Papers in Applied Linguistics series. In this post, she reports from her empirical research on the impact of text simplification strategies on reading comprehension by people with intellectual disabilities.