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Publication details [#66995]

Palfreyman, David and Suha Karaki. 2019. Lexical sophistication across languages: a preliminary study of undergraduate writing in Arabic (L1) and English (L2). International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (8) : 992–1015.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | first language writing | lexical sophistication | second language writing | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article focuses on one element of written language (lexical sophistication), and examines preliminary findings about this variable across languages in a sample of undergraduate student writers in two quite divergent languages: Arabic (L1) and English (L2). There is the possibility of a positive correlation between lexical sophistication in the two languages, although this was not significant in this inquiry.