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HermesThe current study aimed to explore the lexical differences between texts authored by native and non-native English professional architects submitted to ArchDaily, the world’s most visited architecture website.
Ali Asghar Kargar
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Lexical indicators of L2 writing performance
Literacy Trek, 2019 Performance in L2 writing is a complex phenomenon which encompasses complexity, accuracy and fluency. However, relevant literature indicates that lexical performance also plays a role in L2 writing performance as a whole.
Kutay Uzun
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A statistical analysis of satirical Amazon.com product reviews
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 A corpus of 750 product reviews extracted from Amazon.com was analyzed for specific lexical, grammatical, and semantic features to identify differences between satirical and non-satirical Amazon.com product reviews through a statistical analysis.
Stephen Skalicky, Scott Crossley
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Lexical richness in Chinese university students’ EFL writing: a corpus-based comparison
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsLexical richness (LR) is widely recognized as a key indicator of proficiency among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). With the rise of numerous software tools capable of automatically measuring LR in recent years, LR has received increasing
Yang Yang, Xubo He
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LanguagesThe main objective of this study is to investigate how interactive factors affect the vocabulary usage of second language learners in their spoken language. Participants were 24 L1 Chinese undergraduate students of L2 English at an advanced level.
Yixin Wang-Taylor +2 more
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Lexical sophistication measures and writing proficiency: The case of Indonesian learners of Japanese
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Methods, 2022 The present study tests two measures of lexical sophistication in writing proficiency (moving-average morphological richness and moving-average mean size of paradigm for testing the lexical diversity) and mean word length for testing writing form (plain, humble, honorification). The findings suggest that the three metrics work reliably.
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Lexical Richness of the Expository Writing in Indonesian Senior High School Students
Lingual, 2018 Learning a foreign language is often related to knowing the words which called lexical richness. This study investigates the lexical richness in senior high school. The data was taken from the students’ writing on expository essay.
Fara Wahyu Astridya
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SAGE OpenEnglish textbooks are the most pivotal learning materials in the EFL context. However, in Vietnam, English textbooks for general education are randomized by schools, which arouses a problem of whether they are equivalent for students to gain the same ...
Nhi Hoa Mai +2 more
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Cogent EducationCohesive devices play a vital role in genre-based writing but remain underexplored in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) contexts. This study investigates how Indonesian vocational ESP students employ cohesion in written genres. Using a qualitative text
Lutfi Ashar Mauludin +2 more
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A Multidimensional Analysis of L2 Written Complexity: The Case of Sojourners
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied LinguisticsThis study investigated the developmental trajectories and the changing nature of the relationship between holistic proficiency, syntactic and lexical complexity in written L2 English.
Zeynep Köylü
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