Published: 2013-12-31

The evaluation of text communicative nature in selected coursebooks for teaching Polish

Krystyna Gąsiorek

Abstract

The subject of the article is the evaluation of the clarity of texts included in coursebooks for teaching Polish to the 4th‑6th
form students of the primary school and 1st form junior high school students published by two selected publishing houses. The methods of the statistical linguistics were used (C.H. Björnsson’s model with Bengt Sigurd’s scale and Robert Gunning’s so called vagueness factor). By means of them, the author defined the level of the syntactic development of the opinions gained, and lexical complications in a text. In so doing, she examined an average number of words in a sentence, that is an average sentence length, both a simple and complex one, or a different statement as well as text permeation with words longer above mediocrity, as well as the number, quality and ways of explaining the terms. Basing on it, it was possible to formulate conclusions useful for the coursebook authors (e.g. they must not lower the linguistic level of texts for students, though, they should create them in such a way to increase students’ language), publishers and, above all, teachers choosing didactic aids in the form of the appropriate coursebooks. The message of the article is also a thought that measuring an index of clarity or vagueness will allow each author to work on making the quality of his/her texts better.

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Gąsiorek, K. (2013). The evaluation of text communicative nature in selected coursebooks for teaching Polish. Z Teorii I Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego, 22, 149–160. https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2013.22.09

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Vol. 22 (2013)
Published: 2013-12-31


ISSN: 0208-5011
eISSN: 2353-9577
Ikona DOI 10.31261/TPDJP

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