Echipa LEMI, reprezentată de Karla Csürös, Florina Andercău și Roxana Delia Prohap, a prezentat lucrarea „Children’s Literature with LEMI: Preliminary Steps in the Development of the First Romanian Text Readability App” (vezi extras din prezentare mai jos) în cadrul conferinței „The first Baia Mare Conference on literature for children and young adults”, organizată în perioada 8-10 iunie 2023, de către Departamentul de Filologie și Studii culturale al Universității Tehnice din Cluj-Napoca (locația Baia Mare).
Rezumat prezentare:
A contrast has pervaded Romanian schooling recently: an ever-increasing interest in reading activities (through numerous school textbooks, auxiliary materials, NGO initiatives, and publishers’ offers) is mirrored by unsatisfactory reading scores in PISA tests (OECD 2019). Having this conundrum in mind, linguists from the West University of Timișoara’s Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS) initiated the LEMI (Lectura pentru mine, EN: Reading for me) research project in January 2023 to produce a tool for assessing children’s literature according to linguistic complexity during initial reading activities (ages 7-11). As a first step, the children’s needs and observations on school reading were surveyed through a questionnaire, with responses recorded from all target groups (teachers, parents and pupils). This paper reports the questionnaire results – favourite literature texts, textbook assessment, and recommendations for children’s literature. Ultimately, we will explain the integration of these results into the future functionalities of the LEMI tool.
Keywords: LEMI, children’s literature repository, text complexity automatic assessment for Romanian, LEMI questionnaire