Drawing on 300 request letters and 300 self-recommendation letters composed by Chinese
adolescent English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in the National Matriculation …

A good command of academic vocabulary is important for academic success in higher
education. However, research has primarily focused on the receptive academic vocabulary …

The present study used the Mixed Rasch Model (MRM) to identify multiple profiles in L2
students' writing with regard to several linguistic features, including content, organization …

The majority of current lexical richness indices are based on Indo-European languages,
especially English, with a lack of research that investigates their applicability to diverse …

Metadiscourse plays a significant role in determining the quality of writing. While a growing
number of studies have investigated the use of metadiscourse by adult second language …

Previous research on L2 writing quality has mostly focused on independent writing, and
there is little empirical work on integrated writing quality. Furthermore, the majority of studies …

Despite its significance, the relationship between changes in teachers' beliefs regarding
specific aspects of language learning and teaching, and the developmental processes of …

For predicting and improving the quality of essays, text analytic metrics (surface, syntactic,
morphological, and semantic features) can be used to provide formative feedback to the …

This paper reports a cross-sectional study that investigates the developmental features in
second language writings by Chinese beginner learners of English by using four lexical …

Lexical richness is considered as one of the most efficient methods for assessing writing
proficiency and development. However, the developmental features of lexical richness in L3 …