Measuring Indonesian Students’ Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication
IRJE (Indonesian Research Journal in Education), 2018 The aim of the present study was to look at a description of Indonesian EFL students’ vocabulary knowledge. The focus was on their lexical diversity (how many different words students used) and lexical sophistication (how many advance words students used)
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Words by the tail: Assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits.
Nicolas Bérubé +3 more
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Profiling lexical diversity in college-level writing
Vocabulary Learning and InstructionThe present paper reports on a study that examined the contribution of lexical frequency to lexical diversity in narrative texts composed by 119 multilingual and monolingual English-speaking students enrolled in first-year college writing courses.
Melanie C. González
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Psychometric Evaluation of Lexical Diversity Indices: Assessing Length Effects. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2015 Purpose Several novel techniques have been developed recently to assess the breadth of a speaker's vocabulary exhibited in a language sample. The specific aim of this study was to increase our understanding of the validity of the scores generated by different lexical diversity (LD) estimation techniques.
Fergadiotis G, Wright HH, Green SB.
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The Effects of Task Type on Iranian EFL Learners’ Use of Lexical Diversity and Sophistication [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2021 EFL learners’ ability to use advanced and varied vocabulary is a crucial issue in writing performance. This study aimed to investigate the effect of writing task type on lexical diversity and sophistication.
Ali Akbar Ansarin +2 more
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The Effect of Choice of Prompts on Syntactic Complexity, Grammatical Accuracy, and Lexical Diversity in L2 Argumentative Writing Essays [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2021 Previous research has shown the differential effects of task-related prompts on syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and lexical diversity when L2 learners use writing prompts to produce a piece of writing. However, the extent to which the freedom
Rajab Esfandiari, Nilofar Sadeghian
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Lexical diversity in narrative discourse of children with specific language impairment [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2017 Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit significant difficulties in acquiring, processing and using new words. Analysis of spontaneous speech is a useful tool in assessing the development and use of the lexicon in children with SLI ...
Drljan Bojana, Vuković Mile
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Pre-emption with or without Pre-task Planning: A Probe into L2 Lexical Diversity [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2018 The current study, setting a two-fold goal, attempted to see whether the preemptive focus on form (FonF) under either planned or unplanned conditions could contribute to increasing lexical diversity in written narratives and, second, to find whether ...
Somayeh Hosseinzadeh +2 more
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Lexical access and lexical diversity in first language attrition [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014 This paper presents an investigation of lexical first language (L1) attrition, asking how a decrease in lexical accessibility manifests itself in long-term residents in a second language (L2) environment. We question the measures typically used in attrition studies (formal tasks and type–token ratios) and argue for an in-depth analysis of free spoken ...
Schmid, MS, Jarvis, S
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Investigating Lexical Diversity of Children Narratives: A Case Study of L1 Speaking
Register Journal, 2020 Lexical diversity is one of the language tools to measure varied words or vocabulary produced by learners in a text both spoken and written. This research aims to investigate the lexical diversity of children narratives produced by children orally.
Famala Eka Sanhadi Rahayu +2 more
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