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I don’t think that would have been very useful, as Victorian English is typically written in a style that seems alien to modern ears. Perhaps a better title st
by keiferski 1y ago
I don’t think that would have been very useful, as Victorian English is typically written in a style that seems alien to modern ears.
Perhaps a better title still would be: English students had difficulty understanding a passage written in a different culture and time.
Which seems completely normal and expected to me. The issue is in defining “English” as too broad of a term.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoWould you expect that 19% could not read contemporary English at the level expected of a 10th grader? To establish a baseline, they had the students first take a standardized reading comprehension test, the Degrees of Reading Power test, designed for the 10th grade level. Almost all the students scored above 80, indicating they read at or above a 10th grade level.