Table 2 Measures and indices of LR used in the present study.

From: Lexical richness in Chinese university students’ EFL writing: a corpus-based comparison

Measure

Index

Code

Lexical density

Lexical Density

LD

Lexical sophistication

Lexical Sophistication-I

LS1

Verb Sophistication-II

VS2

Lexical variation

Corrected Type/Token Ratio

CTTR

Lexical Word Variation

LWV