I heard someone say that the average reading age of the UK adult was 9 years old (or something along those lines)
doesn’t that change what ‘9 years old’ means in terms of reading age?
does it mean they all stopped learning how to read at age 9??
like who’s the 9 year old child that sets the reading age?
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A lot of has to do with vocabulary. How many words can they recognize and/or use? There’s also an element of comprehension. If they read an advanced text, how much of it do they understand.
Linguists have studied books, newspapers, TV, regular conversations, etc to decide which words are the most common, and which words are considered advanced.
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