ANALYSIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEXICAL COMPLEXITY IN CHINESE SCIENCE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH WRITING

Wanyi Du
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Wanyi Du: Foreign Language Educational Centre, Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning, China

Noble International Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2019, vol. 4, issue 7, 116-120

Abstract: This study analyzes the development characteristics of vocabulary complexity in written English of the students from key science and engineering universities from the aspects of the length of word, distribution of long words and parts of speech, type-and-token ratio (TTR) and Lexical Frequency Profile. The results show that, from the perspective of development, with the improve of English proficiency and age, the complexity of written vocabulary of science-and-engineering students will, in general, meet a gradually deepening and improving situation; the number of long words has increased significantly and the parts of speech tend to be more abundant; the rate and quantity of low-frequency words in writing are increasing.

Keywords: Science Students’ English Writing; Lexical Complexity; Low-Frequency Words. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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