Table 1 Summary of the writing samples in the present study.
From: Lexical richness in Chinese university students’ EFL writing: a corpus-based comparison
Group | Number of texts | Number of words | ||||
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Min | Max | Mean | SD | |||
EFL group | EFL_Grade1 | 100 | 125 | 503 | 270.58 | 80.97 |
EFL_Grade2 | 100 | 76 | 498 | 273.92 | 81.77 | |
EFL_Grade3 | 100 | 57 | 470 | 221.58 | 76.66 | |
EFL_Grade4 | 100 | 146 | 514 | 352.58 | 67.46 | |
Total | 400 | 57 | 514 | 279.67 | 89.89 | |
ENL group | 200 | 56 | 1973 | 746.77 | 423.79 | |
Total | 600 | 56 | 1973 | 435.37 | 337.07 |