Tools for measuring the language level of a text

Tools for measuring the language level

of a text
To measure the difficulty of a text, there are a few tools we can use.
Text Inspector is a piece of software that can tell us how complex our text is. To use Text Inspector, go
to this link and copy and paste your text into the analysis box. Then press ‘Analyse’ and you will get a lot
of information about the level and complexity of the text. Text Inspector will tell you how long your
sentences are, how many syllables it has in each sentence and word, and the type / token ratio.
Text Inspector also tells you about the Readability of a text. The Flesch Reading Ease is a measure of
how easy a text is to read: the higher the number (out of 100), the easier the text. The Flesch-Kincaid
Grade Level refers to the school grade in the US system. For example, this text has a Flesch Reading
Ease of 59.30 and a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 10.12. That means it is quite a challenging text but it
would be suitable for an tenth grader in the US school system.
If you want to check the level of a specific word, you can use the English Vocabulary Profile tool from
Cambridge University Press, which (at the time of writing) is free to subscribe to.
Similarly, you can also check the level of a grammatical structure using the English Grammar Profile.
For teachers writing academic reading tests, the Academic Word List from Victoria University, Wellington,
NZ is also a useful resource. This resource provides useful lists of the most frequent words used in
academic environments. There are 10 lists, ranging from most frequent words (list 1) to least frequent (list
10).

https://readable.com/readability/flesch-reading-ease-flesch-kincaid-grade-level/

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/textanalysis/