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Direct linkLöwenadler, John – Language Testing, 2019
This study aims to investigate patterns of variation in the interplay of L2 language ability and general reading comprehension skills in L2 reading, by comparing item-level effects of test-takers' results on L1 and L2 reading comprehension tests. The material comes from more than 500,000 people tested on L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) in the…
Descriptors: Swedish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2017
The present study discusses the relevance of measures of lexical diversity (LD) to the assessment of learner corpora. It also argues that existing measures of LD, many of which have become specialized for use with language corpora, are fundamentally measures of lexical repetition, are based on an etic perspective of language, and lack construct…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
McCarthy, Philip M.; Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2007
A reliable index of lexical diversity (LD) has remained stubbornly elusive for over 60 years. Meanwhile, researchers in fields as varied as "stylistics," "neuropathology," "language acquisition," and even "forensics" continue to use flawed LD indices--often ignorant that their results are questionable and in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Adolescents
