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A Corpus-based Analysis of High School English Textbooks and English University Entrance Exams in Turkey

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study aims to explore the missing link between English textbooks used in high schools (9th-12th grades) and English university entrance exams (2010-2019) in Turkey on lexical and syntactic complexity levels by using corpus linguistics tools ...
Tan Arda Gedik, Yağmur Su Kolsal
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The relationships between the average semester growth rates of lexical sophistication in L2 English writing at secondary school: A learner corpus analysis

Glottodidactica, 2021
In line with Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), the aim of the paper is to examine dynamics and causality among the growth rates of lexical sophistication in L2 writing development.
KATARZYNA ROKOSZEWSKA
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Comparing contract cheating papers and L2 university student papers using lexical complexity analysis: An exploratory study

International Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2021
Instructors typically use widely available plagiarism detection tools to uncover overlapping vocabulary with other texts; however, they lack empirical evidence on measures differentiating between student writing and outsourced papers.
Kathleen Bailey, Eniko Csomay
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The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners

Topics in Linguistics, 2016
This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short ...
Šišková Zdislava
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A longitudinal study of L2 historical writing

Ibérica, 2022
Unlike most research performed to date on writing proficiency in formal settings—which is cross-sectional and unrelated to disciplinary content—the aim of this paper is to offer a longitudinal description of the lexical richness in the L2 historical ...
Adrián Granados, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Francisco Lorenzo   +2 more
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Relations of linguistic features, rhetorical moves, and writing quality in academic writing of secondary students

International Journal of Educational Research Open
Understanding what features characterize proficient writing and how linguistic and rhetorical features contribute to writing quality is crucial in understanding the complexity of writing and written text.
Undarmaa Maamuujav
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Exploring Lexical Sophistication in Second Language: An Analysis of Vocabulary Using a Word-Rating Method

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
Previous research has established that determining lexical sophistication (i.e., the percentage of sophisticated words in a text) through the judgment of teachers on a corpus of words is a more accurate method than relying on word frequency-based lists.
Eihab Abu-Rabiah
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Richness Lost in Machine Translationese: [PDF]

The Egyptian Journal of Language Engineering
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) might have been pronounced as faster and better than human translation. However, NMT inherently overgeneralizes the more frequently appearing patterns detected in their training data at the expense of the less frequently ...
Radwa Kotait
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Topic familiarity and story continuation in young English as a foreign language learners’ writing tasks

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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Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency

The Modern Language Journal
AbstractLexical proficiency in a second language (L2) has long been effectively assessed through the measurement of various lexical indices, or textual characteristics that act as observable indicators of such conceptual categories as lexical richness, diversity, sophistication, and fluency.
Olesya Kisselev, Mihail Kopotev, Anton Vakhranev   +2 more
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