Some of the students that have diverse language backgrounds can have difficulties in understanding the text. Using plain and clear language can help them to read, understand and use the information you are giving them in comparation with the complex, expert language with uncommon words that may be inaccessible to them.
In order to help those persons, there can be available additional or parallel resources that contain:
- easy to understand words
- simple tense
- short blocks of text
- unambiguous content
Some examples:
Source: Use clear and simple language – Federation University Australia
Complex | Simple |
advantageous | helpful |
ameliorate | improve |
commence | begin, start |
due to the fact that | because |
endeavour | try |
erroneous | wrong |
leverage | use |
optimise | perfect |
pertaining to | about, of, on |
proximity | near |