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Aspects of Lexical Proficiency in Writing Summaries in a Foreign Language
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Baba, Kyoko – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
This study investigated the impact of aspects of the lexical proficiency of EFL students on their summary writing in English (L2) by controlling for the impact of a range of linguistic abilities in English and Japanese (L1). Sixty-eight Japanese undergraduate students wrote two summaries of English texts in English. Their English lexical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Multiple Regression Analysis