This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

Syntactic complexity is an important measure of second language (L2) writing proficiency
(Larsen–Freeman, 1978; Lu, 2011). Large‐grained indices such as the mean length of T …

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 …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

This study introduces the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion (TAACO), a freely
available text analysis tool that is easy to use, works on most operating systems (Windows …

This study set out to investigate intellectual domains as well as the use of measurement and
validation methods in language assessment research and second language acquisition …

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 sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …

This article introduces the second version of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion
(TAACO 2.0). Like its predecessor, TAACO 2.0 is a freely available text analysis tool that …

This study evaluates the use of a hierarchical classification approach to automated
assessment of essays. Automated essay scoring (AES) generally relies on machine learning …