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Lexical richness in expository essays written by learners of L3 French




AuthorsMaarit Mutta

EditorsPäivi Pietilä, Katalin Doró, Renata Pípalová

Publishing placeNewcastle upon Tyne

Publication year2015

Book title Lexical issues in L2 writing

First page 77

Last page102

Number of pages26

ISBN978-1-4438-8022-0

eISBN978-1-4438-8164-7

Web address http://www.cambridgescholars.com/lexical-issues-in-l2-writing


Abstract

This chapter focuses on multilingual students' lexical richness in L3 French at teh university level. The impact of earlier acquired languages is discussed in the Finnish context and in relation to language users' multilingual lexicon. The study in the chapter looked at how Finnsih students constructed their text, in a situation where they had to write an expository essay under pressure of time and with no external resources, such as dictionaries. The chapter examines the relationship between lexical richness and the type/token and word frequency in the students' texts.




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