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Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia; Nation, Paul – Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study proposes a new measure of lexical richness, the Lexical Frequency Profile (LFP), which looks at the proportion of high-frequency general service and academic words in learners' writing. The results of a study involving 65 second-language students indicated that LFP scores were comparable to scores on other vocabulary measures. (14…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
