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Computational Assessment of Lexical Differences in L1 and L2 Writing
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Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of how lexical differences related to cohesion and connectionist models can distinguish first language (L1) writers of English from second language (L2) writers of English. Key to this analysis is the use of the computational tool Coh-Metrix, which measures cohesion and text difficulty at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Discriminant Analysis, English (Second Language), Educational Technology