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What is Lexical profile

Chapter 14
New Technological Applications for Foreign and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Lexical profile is a well-known and widely used lexical richness measure. Depending on which computer program the researcher has access to, BNC-COCA 25( Nation, 2012 ) can divide a text into 25 levels starting from the most common 1000 English words to 25,000 words.
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Data-Driven Learning at the English Drafting Stage
Hsien-Chin Liou (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) and Tzu-Wei Yang (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2591-3.ch014
Abstract
Integrating corpus consultation to help students' re-use of vocabulary items for essay-drafting has not been sufficiently examined in instructional contexts. This chapter investigated the linguistic features of target words for which students consulted concordance programs to include in essays by documenting the DDL of three groups of EFL students in a Taiwanese college writing program. Participant essays, video files of consultation processes, responses to questionnaires, interviews, and written records of corpus consultation were examined. Researchers found 88.14% of all consulted words were incorporated into essays, with learners looking up 3.18 words. The lexical profile of consulted words indicates that learners mainly used the most common 1,000 to 2,000 words with more verbs more frequently consulted than nouns. Students queried words for confirmation or incorporated the discovered vocabulary into essays. As emergent pattern hunters, the participants made only limited use of dictionaries and bilingual resources. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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Chapter 6
Assessing Foreign Language Narrative Writing Through Automated Writing Evaluation: A Case for the Web-Based Pigai System
The analytical statistics of writings based on corpora and cloud computing in Pigai and categorized into various aspects (e.g. average word length, lexical richness, lexical sophistication, average sentence length, clause density, and paragraph length).
Published in Chapter: Assessing Foreign Language Narrative Writing Through Automated Writing Evaluation: A Case for the Web-Based Pigai System; From: ICT-Based Assessment, Methods, and Programs in Tertiary Education
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