In assessments of second language (L2) writing, quality of lexis typically claims more variance than other factors, and the most readily operationalized measure of lexical quality is word frequency. This study compares two methods of automatically assessing word frequency in learner productions. The first method, a band-based method, involves lexical frequency profiling, a procedure that first ...

This contribution examines the macro quantitative features of 15 lowfrequency word classes. The relationship between word frequency classes and the sizes of the frequency classes obeys Altmann’s power law, and the sizes of lowfrequency word classes increase along with the increase of text length. The relationship between text length and the sizes of low-frequency word classes also obeys Altmann...

The reasons for establishing a new Swedish core vocabulary are presented, and the steps taken in its establishment are described. Some conclusions are drawn as for the usefulness o f frequency lists in this respect The impact on the frequency lists o f the nature of the corpus is illustrated. The necessity o f introducing phrases in the core vocabulary is pointed o u t The information to be ass...

Children with intellectual disability were randomly assigned to receive Milieu Communication Teaching (MCT) at one 1-hr session per week (low dose frequency, LDF) or five 1-hr sessions per week (high dose frequency, HDF) over 9 months ( Fey, Yoder, Warren, & Bredin-Oja, 2013 . Non-Down syndrome (NDS) and Down syndrome (DS) subgroups were matched on intelligence, mental age, and chronological ag...

We describe our word-based implementation of a language identifying system for the text messages written in European languages. Speci cally, we use and compare linguistic (based on functional words) and statistic (based on the word frequency) approaches to construction of the identifying vocabularies. Our version of the statistic approach copes with the di erences in degrees of word overlap amo...

Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth well the are known). Both theoretical categories essential for understanding language learners’ lexical development, but how different aspects of interconnect has not received same attention as each individual dimension, especially in terms productive knowledge. This study analyses ...

When bilingual children enter formal reading education, host language proficiency becomes increasingly important. This study investigated the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), maternal language use, reading input, and vocabulary in a sample of 111 six-year-old children of first- and second-generation Turkish immigrant parents in the Netherlands. Mothers reported on their language use...