The Lexical Breadth of Undergraduate Novice Level Writing Competency

Abstract This study builds on previous work exploring reading and listening lexical thresholds (Nation, 2006; Laufer & Ravenhorst-Kalovski, 2010; Schmitt, Jiang, & Grabe, 2011) in order to investigate productive vocabulary targets that mark successful entry-level undergraduate writing. Pa...

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Main Author: Scott Roy Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carleton University 2013-06-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/article/view/21176