Predicting Second Language Writing Proficiency: The Roles of Cohesion and Linguistic Sophistication

By Scott Andrew Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Literature and Literary Theory

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The tool for the automatic analysis of text cohesion (TAACO): Automatic assessment of local, global, and text cohesion (2015, methodology): “For instance, in a study that examined the writing quality of essays produced by Hong Kong high school students, Crossley and McNamara (2012) found that the local and overall text cohesion devices reported by Coh-Metrix, such as content word overlap, positive logical connectives, aspect repetition,…”
Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application (2015, methodology): “…Association 757 Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2010), reading difficulty (e.g., Cobb, 2007; Crossley, Greenfield, & McNamara, 2008), writing quality (Crossley & McNamara, 2012; McNamara, Crossley, & McCarthy, 2010), speaking proficiency (e.g., Crossley, Clevinger, & Kim, 2014; Crossley &…”
Lexical Sophistication as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Relations to Second Language Lexical Proficiency, Development, and Writing Quality (2018, unknown): “…low-frequency words, words that occur in fewer contexts, less imageable words, less meaningful words, less familiar words, and words that are acquired at a later age (Crossley & McNamara, 2012; Crossley et al., 2014; Jung, Crossley, & McNamara, 2015; Kyle & Crossley, 2016; Laufer & Nation, 1995).”
Linguistic features in writing quality and development: An overview (2020, background): “…local cohesion features such as the use of connectives are less clear with some studies showing more proficient L2 writers producing more connectives (Jin, 2001; Connor, 1990), but at least one study (Crossley & McNamara, 2012) finding that higher quality L2 texts did not contain more connectives.”