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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lexical Sophistication"”.
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… explored to what extent the prompts may affect lexical features and whether lexical features could distinguish essays that were rated as different proficiency levels in the integrated reading-writing tasks. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 262 essays from the English Placement …
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Lexical and Collocational Sophistication in Chinese High School Writing
… senior high school students make use of their lexical and collocational knowledge in their academic writing. This thesis applies two corpora to compare passages written by Chinese senior high school students and mainstream Year 11 secondary students in the United Kingdom. In study 1, I explore …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… the richness of their vocabulary as measured by lexical diversity and lexical sophistication at each level of speaking proficiency.</p>
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Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
… <p>The present study investigated syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency in the academic writing of heritage students of Russian enrolled in language courses in American universities. Using a variety of measurements, this study analyzed global parameters of heritage speakers’ …
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Semantic prototypes in EFL children’s and adolescents’ lexical output and vocabulary input in EFL textbooks
… based on the identification of cross-cultural lexical prototypes with second language learners of English and psycholinguistic prototype studies centered attention on how semantic prototypes were present in the L2 learners’ lexical output in response to a lexical availability task (LAT). L2 …
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Lexical availability and motivation in CLIL: the effects of language of instruction and gender
… & Lasagabaster, 2015). Within the field of lexical availability (LA), there have been recent calls to better understand this effect, by focusing on LA prompts which may be relevant to the CLIL subject and by including some measure of proficiency in order to determine its influence (Canga …
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Analyzing lexical features to predict Indian ITAs’ performance in a university oral English assessment
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01