Lexical Richness in EFL Students' Narratives

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lexical Richness in EFL Students' Narratives

Original language description

The paper compares different measures of lexical richness in narratives written by Czech EFL learners. The focus is on three groups of lexical richness measures: measures of lexical diversity (saying how many different words are used), lexical sophistication (saying how many advanced words are used) and lexical density (saying what is the proportion of content words in the text). The most frequently used measures representing each group were selected (Tweedie & Baayen 1998; McCarthy 2005; Daller et al.2007; McCarthy & Jarvis 2010) and used to analyse students? stories. The main focus of the study is on comparing the relationships between different measures, both within and between the three respective groups. The results show that the three groups areto some extent distinct and therefore measure different kinds of vocabulary knowledge but also that there are relationships between them: the strongest correlations are between measures of lexical diversity and sophistication; measures o

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

LANGUAGE STUDIES WORKING PAPERS

ISSN

2040-3461

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

26-36

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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