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A Study on Lexical Diversity of L2 Korean Learners’ Writing: Focusing on the Comparison with Lexical Diversity of Their Speaking

Nam Juyeon 1 Youngjoo Kim 1 김양희 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study investigated lexical diversity of L2 Korean learners’ writings. The study analyzed writings from 55 learners(American, Chinese, French and Japanese) in terms of the number of tokens, types, and D value, and compared them with the results in 남주연‧김영주(2014). The study found that (i) numbers of tokens and types and D value in writings increa1sed as the proficiency developed. (ii) nouns took the lead of lexical diversity increasement in both writing and speaking; however, verbs showed the diversity increasement at intermediate level writing and advanced level speaking. (iii) D value showed no big difference in both writing and speaking at high-beginner level. But more diverse vocabularies were used in writing at intermediate level, and in speaking at advanced level.

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