Tag: readability
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Readability tests on the Eucharistic Prayers
In the new translation of Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Missal, the length of sentences and the educational level required for reading comprehension have taken a quantum leap.
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Second Graders Can Understand This!?
I downloaded the 4 new Eucharistic Prayers into Word documents. Word provides the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level, which measures the complexity of the sentence strucure and the difficulty of the vocabulary. The result was…