FEATURES OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL TEXT ANALYSIS Cover Image

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЦИФРОВЫХ УЧЕБНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ
FEATURES OF DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL TEXT ANALYSIS

Author(s): Tatyana Sergeevna Veselovskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: digital text; digital reading; educational text; multimodal analysis; multimodality

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes the features of digital educational text which aff ect the approach to its analysis inthe aspect of multimodality. Currently, digital texts are actively used in educational contexts. Such texts have a numberof distinctive features at the level of structure and content, which aff ects students’ comprehension and perception.This makes the phenomenon of digital text a relevant object for study in the linguistic aspect. The novelty of the researchrefers to developing a theoretical approach to the digital educational text analysis. The main objective of thispaper is to describe the key characteristics and peculiarities of the approaches to the study of digital texts as a complexsemiotic object. Both theoretical and practical research methods were applied to achieve the aim of the study. Studieson the linguistic and discursive features of digital text were analyzed and summarized to identify the essential parametersfor analysis. Qualitative data were collected through a survey among teachers using digital educational texts.The study revealed that multimodal text analysis is the most promising direction of digital educational text analysis,since it enables to analyze not only separate modalities, but also their unity, taking into account multiple and multilevelconnections between them. This approach will let future researchers to create highly accurate stimulus materials forempirical data

  • Issue Year: 44/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 56-62
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian