QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF REPETITION AND COMPLEXITY OF VOCABULARY IN THE CORPUS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK
Karamnov Anton Sergeevich
Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin
Abstract. The article considers the procedure of linguistic evaluation of an English language textbook on the basis of corpus approach. The special attention is paid to the lexical completion of a textbook. Analysis of language material is carried out according to the criteria of repetition of the active vocabulary and adequacy for the level of language competence. The conclusions of the research are supported by the appropriate quantitative indices.
Key words and phrases: корпусный подход, языковой корпус, учебник английского языка, лексическая наполненность, повторяемость лексики, квантитативный анализ, corpus approach, linguistic corpus, English language textbook, lexical completion, repetition of vocabulary, quantitative analysis
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