Danielle S. McNamara
List of John Benjamins publications for which Danielle S. McNamara plays a role.
2017 Chapter 5. Five building blocks for comprehension strategy instruction Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings, León, José A. and Inmaculada Escudero (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
Comprehension is a complex task that is integral to success in academics and the workplace. Unfortunately, it is not a task that comes easily to all students. Hence, an important question faced by educators and researchers is how to most effectively provide students with instruction to improve… read more
2014 Chapter 3.1 A Multi-Dimensional analysis of essay writing: What linguistic features tell us about situational parameters and the effects of language functions on judgments of quality Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber, Berber Sardinha, Tony and Marcia Veirano Pinto (eds.), pp. 197–238 | Article
This study applied the Multi-Dimensional analysis used by Biber (1988) to examine the functional parameters of essays. Co-occurrence patterns were identified within an essay corpus (n = 1529) using linguistic indices provided by Coh-Metrix. These patterns were used to identify essay groups that… read more
2014 Frequency effects and second language lexical acquisition: Word types, word tokens, and word production International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:3, pp. 301–332 | Article
Frequency effects in an L1 and L2 longitudinal corpus were investigated using Zipfian distribution analyses and linear curve estimations. The results demonstrated that the NS lexical input exhibited Zipfian distributions, but that the L2 lexical output did not match the NS Zipfian patterns. Word… read more
2013 Chapter 5. Computer simulations of MRC Psycholinguistic Database word properties: Concreteness, familiarity, and imageability Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures, Jarvis, Scott and Michael Daller (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Chapter
This study investigates the potential for computational models informed through automated lexical indices to simulate human ratings of word concreteness, word familiarity, and word imageability. The goal of the study is to provide word information estimates for words with human ratings, thereby… read more
2013 Chapter 4. Validating lexical measures using human scores of lexical proficiency Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures, Jarvis, Scott and Michael Daller (eds.), pp. 105–134 | Chapter
This study examines the convergent validity of a wide range of computational indices reported by Coh-Metrix that have been associated in past studies with lexical features such as basic category words, semantic co-referentiality, word frequency, and lexical diversity. This study uses human… read more