Appropriateness as an aspect of lexical richness: What do quantitative measures tell us about children's writing?

Durrant, Philip; Durrant, Ayça

doi:10.1016/j.asw.2021.100596

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“…Apart from that, the relationship between linguistic intelligence and language ability also emphasizes the importance of language skills in establishing effective communication and expressing one's thoughts and feelings. Language skills also include understanding vocabulary, which plays a role in general language skills (Durrant & Durrant, 2022;Song et al, 2023). Therefore, lexical language skills play an important role in a person's ability to communicate and think.…”

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Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

Ermanto,

JR,

Ardi

et al. 2024

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Purpose: This research has several objectives. First, determine lexical density and compare the lexical density. Second, to determine the key lexical density and compare the key lexical density. Third, to test the independence of the relationship between lexical variations and the text of President Joko Widodo's and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speeches. Theoretical Reference: The theoretical basis used in this research is the lexical analysis approach in linguistics. The application of lexical perspective analysis is expected to be able to review the communication used by each individual. The theoretical lexical discussion will also use a statistical independence analysis approach. The application of a statistical independence analysis approach is used to review a person's individual language abilities. Method: This research uses a qualitative and quantitative corpus linguistics approach. The corpus linguistic application used in this research is the KORTARA application (Korpus Nusantara). The research data is a corpus of 9 texts of President Joko Widodo's speeches and a corpus of 9 texts of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono which are official speeches every 16 August before the DPR of the Republic of Indonesia. Results and Conclusion: The results of this research reveal that the text corpus of President Joko Widodo's speech is richer and more varied than the text corpus of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech in lexical use. This research also revealed that there is a relationship between lexical variation and the type of text of the President of the Republic of Indonesia's speech with a confidence level of 95%. The difference in lexical variation and frequency between the text corpus of President Joko Widodo's speech and the text corpus of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech is statistically significant at p < 0.05. Implication of Research: The implication of this research is the realization of the KORTARA corpus linguistic approach (Korpus Nusantara) which can facilitate research for small and large scale data. This research also reveals that the application of a statistical approach provides maximum results in the analysis of large-scale linguistic phenomena. Originality/value: The current study makes a valuable empirical contribution by combining statistical analysis using corpus and qualititative analysis to give comprehensive conclusion. This study is the answer toward the question about the reliability and validity of linguistic studies.

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Section: Theoretical Reference Framweorkmentioning

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Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

Ermanto,

JR,

Ardi

et al. 2024

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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“…Research on children normally does not mention notions such as communicative/functional adequacy, although a number of studies were carried out to investigate the relationships between overall writing quality (assessed with holistic ratings) and more specific analytic features. Vocabulary has been shown to play a major role in predicting writing quality judgments, in terms of both the variety and sophistication of lexical items (Durrant & Durrant, 2022;Olinghouse & Wilson, 2013). Handwriting fluency is also an important factor, especially in grades 3 and 4, when children may have reached quite different levels of automatization of this fundamental skill (Roessingh et al, 2019;Skar et al 2021).…”

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Holistic and analytic assessment of functional adequacy

Pallotti

2022

TASK

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This study looks at the correlation between functional adequacy (FA), holistically assessed, and analytic linguistic measures, in a corpus of texts written by Italian monolingual and multilingual primary school pupils. Texts were first evaluated using the FA rating scales by Kuiken and Vedder (2017, 2018), plus one for Coherence & Cohesion from the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001′). They were then coded for a number of features directly bearing on FA and its subdimensions. Results show correlations between holistic scores and analytic measures, such as those between Content and the number of words or secondary idea units (r = .59 / .65). Others were less strong, yet going in the expected direction, e.g. more ambiguous referential expressions were negatively correlated to Comprehensibility. Correlations were generally stronger for monolingual than for multilingual children.

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Studying children's writing development with a corpus

Durrant¹

2022

Applied Corpus Linguistics

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Appropriateness as an aspect of lexical richness: What do quantitative measures tell us about children's writing?

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

Holistic and analytic assessment of functional adequacy

Studying children's writing development with a corpus

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