LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF AUTHENTIC TEXTS

A Linguistic Analysis of Simplified and Authentic Texts

The opinions of second language learning (L2) theorists and researchers are divided over whether to use authentic or simplified reading texts as the means of input for beginningand intermediate-level L2 learners. Advocates of both approaches cite the use of linguistic features, syntax, and discourse structures as important elements in support of their arguments, but there has been no conclusive...

Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners

Language Features of Russian Texts of Engineering Discourse

The Article is devoted to the applied problem of identifying the linguistic features of engineering texts. The study of Russian-language texts of engineering discourse is usually of an applied nature, in our case, this applied research is caused by the need to teach foreigners who receive professional engineering education in Russia and in Russian language. The object of the research is the Rus...

Linguistic Processing of Texts Using Geppetto

We describe the linguistic analyzer of a prototype for Information Extraction from texts. Such analyzer uses information derived from a shallow processor to limit the computational cost of the analysis. At the same time, shallow techniques are used to collapse parse fragments when a complete parse is not possible. The linguistic analyzer has been built using GePpeTto, an environment that allows...

Fairy Tales and ESL Texts: An Analysis of Linguistic Features Using the Gramulator

This chapter describes a study that investigates the potential value of using traditional fairy tales as reading material for English language learners (ELL). Using the computational textual analysis software, the Gramulator, the authors analyzed the linguistic features of fairy tales relative to a corpus of ELL reading material and a corpus of baseline educational texts for native English spea...