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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021 Prior research demonstrates that primary and secondary school teachers often find teaching young learners to write in a second language a slow and effortful process. Moreover, students in this age range lack the motivation to write.
Gavin Bui, Xueya Luo
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Algorithmic and subjective measures of lexical diversity in bilingual written corpora: a discussion
Corela, 2017 Lexical development plays an important role in L2 acquisition/learning and has therefore been widely investigated, especially with regard to the lexical diversity of texts produced by L2 learners; as a result, several indices have been created to measure
Audrey Bonvin, Amelia Lambelet
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Developmental Features of Lexical Richness in English Writings by Chinese L3 Beginner Learners
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Lexical richness is considered as one of the most efficient methods for assessing writing proficiency and development. However, the developmental features of lexical richness in L3 writing remain relatively poorly understood compared with that of L2 ...
Xuelan Li, Huiping Zhang
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Analysing Lexical Density and Lexical Diversity in University Students’ Written Discourse
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 This study analyses both lexical density and lexical diversity in the written production of two groups of first year students at the Universitat de València at the beginning a nd end of one-semester teaching period. These results were compared with those obtained by a thir d group of students aiming at level C2.
Gregori-Signes, Carmen +1 more
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Lexical Diversity Measures’ Review And Classification
Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates, 2020 This paper reviews various lexical diversity (LD) measures and their classification. The authors define the most significant advantages and disadvantages of the measures and investigate the main scopes of LD application. They include measuring LD in the speech of children and people with aphasia, checking progress in learning a foreign language, and ...
Elena Yu. Zakharova, Olga Yu. Savina
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Lexical diversity as a predictor of complexity in textbooks on the Russian language
Russian Language Studies, 2023 The parametric model of the text as a research problem is of paramount importance in modern linguistics and education, since it opens up new approaches to understanding the processes of comprehending texts of various types.
Anna A. Churunina +2 more
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Capturing the Diversity in Lexical Diversity
Language Learning, 2013 The range, variety, or diversity of words found in learners’ language use is believed to reflect the complexity of their vocabulary knowledge as well as the level of their language proficiency. Many indices of lexical diversity have been proposed, most of which involve statistical relationships between types and tokens, and which ultimately reflect the
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Languages, 2021 A need exists to address how the availability of digital platforms plays a role in collaborative writing. Further, interest has emerged to understand heritage language (HL) learners’ writing as a result of task-based peer interactions with either second ...
Julio Torres, Nicole A. Vargas Fuentes
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Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Using machine learning on a mega‐scale global dataset (n = 1,336,840) reveals a robust personality trait architecture beyond the Big Five. A Big Two model, broadly capturing social engagement and internal mentation, defines a geometric space that links personality to neurocognitive profiles.
Kaixiang Zhuang +7 more
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