Ordniveau
Ordniveau is a term used in linguistics and education to describe the lexical level or difficulty of the words used in a text, relative to the expected vocabulary of a target reader. The concept centers on how familiar or unfamiliar the words are to the audience, rather than on syntax or structure alone. Ordniveau is often employed to tailor materials for language learners, children, or readers with a restricted vocabulary, and it can be considered alongside other readability factors such as sentence length and grammar complexity.
Measuring ordniveau typically involves lexical properties such as word frequency, concreteness, and specificity. Common approaches include
Applications of ordniveau include selecting or adapting texts for educational purposes, publishing controlled or graded readers,
Limitations exist, such as cross-linguistic variation in word familiarity and the contextual nature of word understanding—some