The inventory of semantic roles as a text comprehension parameter

Ekaterina V. Martynova; Mariia I. Andreeva; Ol'ga D. Vishnyakova; Marina I. Solnyshkina

doi:10.29051/el.v7iesp.7.16337

Authors

Ekaterina V. Martynova Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5883-0718
Mariia I. Andreeva Kazan State Medical University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5760-0934
Ol'ga D. Vishnyakova Moscow State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1617-051X
Marina I. Solnyshkina Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1885-3039

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7iesp.7.16337

Keywords:

Text comprehension, Proposition, Semantic role, Social sciences, Experiment

Abstract

In the present article, we studied young readers’ understanding to add to our knowledge of the inventory and range of the semantic roles followed in the immediate oral recalls. Understanding of an expository 200-word Russian text studied by 22 Russian citizens between age 10-11 was evaluated with free memory. The obtained design of the semantic roles’ inventory in the reading text and its recalls includes 2 kinds: principal positions and sub-propositions, the end of which fall into agents, conditions, and conditioners. The findings also confirm that nominal phrases used in the text as main propositions are typically substituted with verbs and verbal phrases in recalls. The authors suggest that the number and range of propositions are good predictors of text complexity.

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Author Biographies

Ekaterina V. Martynova, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia

Teaching assistant of the Department of theory and practice of teaching foreign languages, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Mariia I. Andreeva, Kazan State Medical University

Candidate of Philology, Senior Lecturer

Ol'ga D. Vishnyakova, Moscow State University

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of English linguistics, Philological faculty

Marina I. Solnyshkina, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia

Doctor of philological Science, professor of the Department of theory and practice of teaching foreign languages, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

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