Volume 25 Number 1, February 2021 Special Issue: Big Data in Language Education & Research Lexical complexity, writing proficiency and task effects in Spanish Dual Language Immersion

Lexical complexity, writing proficiency and task effects in Spanish Dual Language Immersion

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Volume 25 Number 1, February 2021 Special Issue: Big Data in Language Education & Research
contributor.author:
Schnur, Erin Rubio, Fernando
date.accessioned:
2021-02-20T00:00:07Z
date.available:
2021-02-20T00:00:07Z
date.issued:
2021-02-12
description.abstract:
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical sophistication. The study goes beyond most previous work on lexical complexity by investigating the effect of task type on all three measures of lexical complexity. Patterns in variation are identified across proficiency levels and between task types. Results show that all three measures increase at each proficiency score between Novice High and Advanced, except at Intermediate Mid where scores dip or flatten. Diversity and sophistication are both shown to increase rapidly after this mid-point, indicating that a broad and deep lexical repertoire is a key feature of more advanced proficiency levels. Results for the effect of task indicate that text genre impacts learners’ lexical density, while tasks that are more complex elicit higher lexical sophistication.
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72
identifier.citation:
Schnur, E., & Rubio, F. (2021). Lexical complexity, writing proficiency and task effects in Spanish Dual Language Immersion. Language Learning & Technology, 25(1), 53–72. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73425
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73425
number:
1
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology (co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin)
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/item/10125-73425/
startingpage:
53
subject:
Corpus Second Language Acquisition Vocabulary Writing
title:
Lexical complexity, writing proficiency and task effects in Spanish Dual Language Immersion
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Article
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Text
volume:
25