Analyzing the patterns of lexico-grammatical complexity across Graded Reader levels

dc.contributor.author Goulart, Larissa
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-19T19:21:03Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-19T19:21:03Z
dc.date.issued 2020-10-15
dc.description.abstract This study investigates the development of lexico-grammatical complexity in two levels of graded readers, beginner and intermediate. Using the linguistic features described in Biber et al. (2011), 58 graded readers were analyzed. Biber et al. (2011) proposed a lexico-grammatical developmental sequence based on empirical research. In this study, 11 of these grammatical features were counted in these two levels of graded readers. The graded reader corpus was tagged for the lexico-grammatical features, and a Mann-Whitney U test was conducted to account for the differences between graded readers’ levels. The results of the statistical analysis suggest that beginner graded readers have more advanced features of complexity than intermediate graded readers. Nevertheless, after close analysis of text excerpts, it is clear that this is a result of the register being investigated, with intermediate graded readers having more features of conversation than beginner graded readers.
dc.identifier.citation Goulart, L. (2020). Analyzing the patterns of lexico-grammatical complexity across Graded Reader levels. Reading in a Foreign Language, 32(2), 83-103. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67375
dc.identifier.issn 1539-0578
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67375
dc.publisher University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisher Center for Language & Technology
dc.subject graded reader
dc.subject lexico-grammatical complexity
dc.subject corpus linguistics
dc.subject phrasal complexity
dc.subject clausal complexity
dc.title Analyzing the patterns of lexico-grammatical complexity across Graded Reader levels
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 103
prism.number 2
prism.startingpage 83
prism.volume 32
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