World englishes: reflection on text complexity prospective studies

AutorOlesya A. Yarullina - Fanuza H. Tarasova - Elena V. Varlamova - Olga S. Safonkina - Elena V. Sazhyna
CargoKazan Federal University. - Kazan Federal University. - Kazan Federal University. el-var@mail.ru. +7(927)035-85-35. - National Research Mordovia State University. - Gomel State University.
Páginas122-132
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 8 - Nº 07 - Ano 2019 – Special Edition
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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WORLD ENGLISHES: REFLECTION ON TEXT COMPLEXITY
PROSPECTIVE STUDIES
Olesya A. Yarullina1
Fanuza H. Tarasova2
Elena V. Varlamova3
Olga S. Safonkina4
Elena V. Sazhyna5
Abstract: The following study aims at
highlighting new directions of text
complexity studies, giving way to more
advanced and varied research in the area.
It has become the tradition in Russian
linguistics as well as foreign one to
assess predominantly the complexity of
educational texts, thus allowing the
learners to boost text comprehension and
better material recognition [1], [2], [3],
[4]. Text complexity studies can be
directed at other types of texts (fiction or
newspaper articles) in order to raise the
level of awareness and desire to read in
general. Bearing in mind that newspaper
articles in English can be written by
native and non-native speakers, and both
types of newspapers can be used in
educational purposes, there is urgent
1 1Kazan Federal University.
2 1Kazan Federal University.
3 1Kazan Federal University.
el-var@mail.ru. +7(927)035-85-35.
4 2National Research Mordovia State University.
5 3Gomel State University.
need, as we perceive it, to distinguish the
features of authentic and Russian
English newspaper texts. The research
question of upcoming studies can be
accomplished as follows: Are English-
language newspapers written by Russian
speakers of English as ELF comparable
with the texts of authentic publications?
The results of this study will be
interesting in terms of studying the
Russian version of the English language
as one of the World Englishes in order to
demonstrate whether the differences
between the English variants are
significant. For this purpose, two tools of
computational linguistic analysis can be
applied: Coh-Metrix, a computational
tool that produces indices of the
linguistic and discourse representations

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