The dominant features of the internet linguistics

Valentyna Zaiets; Nataliia Zadorizhna; Iryna Ilchenko; Svitlana Sablina; Hanna Udovichenko; Liudmyla Zahorodnia

doi:10.29051/el.v7i00.15954

Authors

Valentyna Zaiets Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University – (BGKU), Kyiv – Kyiv Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-697X
Nataliia Zadorizhna Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Kyiv – Kyiv Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7727-8447
Iryna Ilchenko Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), Zaporizhzhia – Zaporizhzhia Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-1106
Svitlana Sablina Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), Zaporizhzhia – Zaporizhzhia Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-6258
Hanna Udovichenko Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovskyi (DonNUET), Kryvyi Rih – Dnipropetrovsk Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3731-0857
Liudmyla Zahorodnia Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University (HNPU), Hlukhiv – Sumy Oblast https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2217-1041

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7i00.15954

Keywords:

Electronic discourse, E-communication, Foreign language

Abstract

This research aims at the modern Internet linguistics features by carrying out linguistic analysis using descriptive statistics of students in distance learning. A linguistic analysis found that most students used lexical, orthographic, paralinguistic, and graphic features when communicating in an online classroom. A total of 452 messages, containing a corpus of 6,340 words, were analyzed and found that only 23.72% of the total corpus was found with lexical, spelling, paralinguistic and graphical features at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 22.63% at Stanford University, 21.78% at Harvard University, 24.58% at the California Institute of Technology and 22.76% at Oxford University.

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Author Biographies

Valentyna Zaiets, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University – (BGKU), Kyiv – Kyiv Oblast

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philology.

Nataliia Zadorizhna, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Kyiv – Kyiv Oblast

Ph.D. in English Philology, Associate Professor, Department of English Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication.

Iryna Ilchenko, Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), Zaporizhzhia – Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Department of Ukrainian Language.

Svitlana Sablina, Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), Zaporizhzhia – Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Department of Ukrainian Language.

Hanna Udovichenko, Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovskyi (DonNUET), Kryvyi Rih – Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Department of Foreign Philology, Ukrainian Studies and Social and Low Disciplines.

Liudmyla Zahorodnia, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University (HNPU), Hlukhiv – Sumy Oblast

Head of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology Chair, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Preschool Education.

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