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Publication details [#27063]

Laufer, Batia and Paul Nation. 1995. Vocabulary size and use: Lexical richness in L2 written production. Applied Linguistics 16 (3) : 307–322.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical divergence | vocabulary growth | writing, L2-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper proposes the Lexical Frequency Profile as a new, valid measure of lexical richness in writing, that will help distinguish factors that affect the quality of writing and that can be used to investigate the relationship between vocabulary growth and use.