Level 5: Adults can search for, and integrate, information across multiple, dense texts construct syntheses of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view or evaluate evidence based arguments.
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Adults can identify and understand one or more specific, non-central idea(s) in the text in order to interpret or evaluate subtle evidence-claim or persuasive discourse relationships. Level 4: Adults can integrate, interpret or synthesise information from complex or lengthy texts. Level 3 literacy skills are the minimum considered necessary for coping with everyday life. Level 3: Adults are required to read and navigate dense, lengthy or complex texts. The relevant OECD literacy levels are set out below: Many thanks!īIBLE READING LITERACY AGES….AND RECOMMENDED BIBLE TRANSLATIONS PAIRINGS Last Schedule! I look forward to any information/observations/comments. If it is not possible to pursue matters here, please say so – and do not worry! Please bear with this ageing technofumbler! I hope now to send through four schedules, each of a page or less. I shall not, at present, make any comments on mstters, as I would welcome information/comments/etc.
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That project has now been completed, and I was praying for two things :(1) an indication of the state of play for 2020 – and, lo!, I have it from you and (2) a forum to invite some feedback and comment on my data, before making a final conclusion on matters – and, lo, this forum would appear to be a very good place in which to elicit responses! It so happens (!) that my own interest in the study led me some time ago to participate in a project designed to ascertain what really was occurring, from 2014 to 2019 inclusive, in the matter of preferred Bible versions. I have had the benefit of one of your table reports in the past. It is a pleasure to thank you for this information and for your interest in this area of study. With nearly 40 years of ministry experience, Thom Rainer has spent a lifetime committed to the growth and health of local churches across North America. Obviously, the RV is a Spanish translation.I started reading the NLT this year and I love it. The NLT is “the quiet Bible.” The translation continues to gain readers without as much attention as other translations.Technically, the CSB was the HCSB (LifeWay) in 2011. No other translation dropped or gained more than one spot. One translation dropped three spots (NASB). The rankings are amazingly stable since 2011.New International Reader’s Version (NIrV) (9).
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Rankings as of January 2020 (numbers in parentheses are 2011 rankings) As a caveat, I understand that some Bibles may be paraphrases rather than translations. The numbers in parentheses represent the rankings in 2011. The latest data I have is from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association as of January 2020. There is a lot of stability in the preference of Bible translations, at least from the perspective of sales.