A Study of the Relationships Between Lexical Richness and Writing Quality: Taking the English Majors at Guangxi University as an Example

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.419How to use a DOI?

Keywords

lexical richness; writing Quality; English majors

Abstract

The present paper aims to investigate the correlation of lexical richness with writing quality by measuring lexical richness in EFL English writing. The research was performed by measuring timed compositions of 56 senior English majors with four indices of lexical richness, including text length, high frequency words, lexical density, and lexical sophistication. The finding of this study is that lexical richness is indeed taken into consideration in scoring the quality of English writing. The measure of the four indices of lexical richness can distinguish between the higher-scoring compositions and lower-scoring compositions, which shows, to a statistically significant extent, that lexical richness correlates with the quality of English writing. It is hoped that the findings of the present study will be useful for improving the teaching and learning of English vocabulary.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Y.J. Xie
AU  - Y. Shen
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - A Study of the Relationships Between Lexical Richness and Writing Quality: Taking the English Majors at Guangxi University as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1638
EP  - 1641
SN  - 2352-5398
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