A Comparative Analysis of Text Difficulty in Slovak and Canadian Science Textbooks

IF 0.7 Q3 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
Zuzana Benícková, Karel Vojíř, L'ubomír Held
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Abstract One of the main purposes of textbooks is the mediation of educational content to students. The factual accuracy of information, as well as the clarity of the text for students plays a crucial role in this aspect. The inadequate text difficulty can complicate students' learning. Comparing different approaches to the text in textbooks, considering the objectives of education, represents key knowledge for teaching materials innovation. This research was therefore focused on the comparison of the Slovak and Canadian science textbooks for lower secondary education. The methodology for assessing text difficulty according to Nestler, Prucha and Pluskal was used for this purpose. The samples of text from the textbooks for 6th and 8th grade of lower-secondary school were assessed. It was found that the text in Slovak textbooks is significantly more difficult. While from the syntactic difficulty point of view differences were rather partial, the significant differences were found in the semantic difficulty of the text. The Slovak textbooks are burdened with an excessive number of professional terms. Considering the results in measuring scientific literacy, this approach to the text in the Slovak textbooks is not effective. The results obtained are therefore an incentive to revise used educational materials.
斯洛伐克语和加拿大语科学教材文本难度的比较分析
摘要教材的主要目的之一是为学生提供教育内容的中介。信息的事实准确性以及学生文本的清晰度在这方面起着至关重要的作用。课文难度不够会使学生的学习复杂化。比较教科书中不同的文本处理方法,考虑到教育目标,代表了教材创新的关键知识。因此,这项研究的重点是斯洛伐克和加拿大初中教育科学教科书的比较。Nestler、Prucha和Pluskal提出的评估文本难度的方法就是为了达到这个目的。对初中六年级和八年级教材中的文本样本进行了评估。研究发现,斯洛伐克教科书中的文本要困难得多。虽然从句法难度的角度来看,差异是相当局部的,但文本的语义难度存在显著差异。斯洛伐克的教科书充斥着过多的专业术语。考虑到衡量科学素养的结果,斯洛伐克教科书中对文本的这种处理方法并不有效。因此,所获得的结果促使人们修改使用过的教育材料。
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Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology
Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES-
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