Lexical diversity as a predictor of complexity in textbooks on the Russian language
- Autores: Churunina A.A.1, Solnyshkina M.I.1, Yarmakeev I.E.1
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Afiliações:
- Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
- Edição: Volume 21, Nº 2 (2023): Digital Technologies in Russian Language Teaching: Current State and Prospects
- Páginas: 212-227
- Seção: Mediadidactics and electronic means of instruction
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2618-8163/article/view/324681
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-8163-2023-21-2-212-227
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/ZYHDWM
- ID: 324681
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The parametric model of the text as a research problem is of paramount importance in modern linguistics and education, since it opens up new approaches to understanding the processes of comprehending texts of various types. In the current study, 17 Russian language textbooks for elementary school were employed to identify correlations between lexical diversity indices and other complexity predictors. The total volume of the corpus compiled for the study is 439,938 words. The two-stage research algorithm included the evaluation of the reference values of text features at the basic level (word length, sentence length, the number of unique, non-repeating words and the number of word forms), evaluation and subsequent contrasting of complexity predictors, i.e. lexical diversity and readability indices. All calculations were performed with the automatic text analyzer RuLingva. The study revealed a positive dynamic of readability and no evidence of lexical diversity increase across grades. An average level of vocabulary diversity and overlaps of every 4th word in the text are fixed. No indication of correlation between text readability and lexical diversity is found. The obtained results can be useful to researchers, textbook authors, and teachers selecting textbooks. The prospects are seen in implementing functional and epidigmatic stratification of the vocabulary of the Russian textbooks under study.
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Anna Churunina
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Email: churunina.anna@gmail.com
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7385-9911
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Theory and Practice of Teaching Foreign Languages, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication
18 Kremlevskaya St, Kazan, 420008, Russian FederationMarina Solnyshkina
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: mesoln@yandex.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1885-3039
Doctor Habil. of Philology, Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Teaching Foreign Languages, Head and Chief Researcher of “Text Analytics” Research Lab, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication
18 Kremlevskaya St, Kazan, 420008, Russian FederationIskander Yarmakeev
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Email: ermakeev@mail.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1103-6469
Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor of the Department of Linguistic and Intercultural Communication, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication
18 Kremlevskaya St, Kazan, 420008, Russian FederationBibliografia
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