Linguistic Complexity Analysis
A Case Study of Commonly-Used Textbooks in Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3269772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinh To (0000-0002-2698-3207, University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244018787586 |
| OpenAlex | W2884105050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
Adopting systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) as the main theoretical framework, this study as part of a larger research project, aimed to examine how the language of textbooks deployed in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Vietnamese context shifted across levels in a book series. In order to do this, this research analyzed three linguistic features namely, lexical density, nominalization, and grammatical metaphor of 24 reading texts in the chosen textbooks. The findings show that overall textbook texts grew complex when their levels advanced. In specific, mean scores of nominalization and grammatical metaphor increased in accordance with the textbook levels from elementary to intermediate, leading to high density in chosen written texts. Nevertheless, the mean scores of the three selected language features in the upper mediate textbook were not the highest among the four books. This finding suggests that in selecting EFL textbooks, educators not only look at textbook levels proposed by textbook writers but also examine its linguistic features to determine most appropriate choice
Lexical density · Lexical item · Linguistics · Metaphor · Nominalization · Noun · Sociology · Systemic functional linguistics · Vietnamese · Educational Methods and Analysis · History · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Ideational Metaphor Analysis on EFL Students’ Academic Writing
Ideational Metaphor in Saudi EFL Students’ Academic Writing
An SFL Analysis of Dialogues in Elementary EFL Textbooks
Promoting inclusive and equitable access
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors
Lexical Demands and Features of English Textbooks for Vietnamese 10th Graders
Reading in a foreign language
The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
English Text
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Syntactic Complexity Measures and their Relationship to L2 Proficiency
Text Complexity in Senior High School English Textbooks
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
Learning to write, reading to learn
Applying Halliday’s linguistic theory in qualitative data analysis
Incongruent and proud
Working with discourse
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |