Lexical complexity measures as indicators of essay quality

WILLIAMS, Christopher. Lexical complexity measures as indicators of essay quality. Online. Hradec Králové: Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Education University of Hradec Králové, 2023, s. 91 - 99.

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Lexical complexity measures as indicators of essay quality

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WILLIAMS, Christopher

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Hradec Králové, od s. 91 - 99, 2023

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Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Education University of Hradec Králové

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není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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elektronická verze "online"

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Klíčová slova anglicky

lexical complexity; writing proficiency

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This study explores how the results of lexical complexity measures can be used to indicate quality in argumentative essays written by L1-Czech L2-English high school students. Final-year students (n=104) from three local high schools participated in this study. The essays were manually graded to give a vocabulary score and automatically analysed for lexical features of density, sophistication, and variation using the Lexical Complexity Analyser developed by Haiyang and Lu (2010) and Lu (2012). The results indicated a strong correlation between the indices used and essay quality, verb-based measurements in particular. The study contributes towards understanding the connection between lexical complexity and quality in L2 argumentative essays.