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Publication details [#52219]

Hunt, Sally, Ros Dowse and Chris La Rose. 2008. Health literacy assessment: relexicalising a US test for a South African population. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26 (2) : 267–281.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | contextualization | health | literacy | testing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study argues that principled relexicalisation of the American REALM (Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine) standardised health literacy test increases its applicability in a local (South African) setting. Standardised tests' restrictions may however overshadow the relexicalisation value.