The impact of text length on the estimation of lexical diversity has captured the attention of
the scientific community for more than a century. Numerous indices have been proposed …

This study introduces the second release of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical
Sophistication (TAALES 2.0), a freely available and easy-to-use text analysis tool. TAALES …

This study explores the construct of lexical sophistication and its applications for measuring
second language lexical and speaking proficiency. In doing so, the study introduces the Tool …

This study examined narrative and argumentative essays written over the course of a 4‐
month semester by 37 students of English as a second language (ESL). The essays were …

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this
research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global …

Lexical diversity (LD) is an important feature of a second language (L2) writer's lexical
knowledge, and indices of LD have been widely used in the field of writing assessment (eg …

This study explores whether linguistic features can predict second language writing
proficiency in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT) integrated and …

The range, variety, or diversity of words found in learners' language use is believed to reflect
the complexity of their vocabulary knowledge as well as the level of their language …

The study reported in this paper investigated differences in cohesion, syntactic complexity,
and lexical sophistication between L1 and L2 narrative writing and across narrative task …

This study aims to explore the validity of syntactic, lexical, and morphological complexity
measures in capturing topic and proficiency differences in L2 writing. The additional purpose …