The impact of bilingual dictionaries on lexical sophistication and lexical accuracy in tests of L2 writing proficiency: A quantitative analysis

Assessing Writing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-197

  East, Martin ^a  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lexical accuracy; Lexical Frequency Profile; Lexical sophistication; Timed writing tests; Writing assessment; Writing proficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947726256     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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