BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium | Spanish L2 writing assessment: lexical sophistication and lexical diversity as predictors of proficiency\, April 16\n\nThe Linguistics Colloquium series presents Carla Consolini discussing “Spanish L2 writing assessment: lexical sophistication and lexical diversi ty as predictors of proficiency” on Friday\, April 16\, from 12:55 to 1:50 p.m. via Microsoft TEAMS.\n\nJoin the Teams meeting on your computer or mob ile app.Or call in (audio only) +1 614-706-6572\,\,653501447# United States \, Columbus Phone Conference ID: 653 501 447#.Contact Dr. David Bell\, Chai r of Linguistics at Ohio University\, belld@ohio.edu.\n\nConsolini is a Ph. D. student in linguistics at the University of Oregon. She is also an Ohio University alumna\, having earned an M.A. in Linguistics in 2019 and an M.A . in Spanish in 2018.\n\n Abstract: In the fields of second language acquis ition (SLA) and second language assessment (SLS) much has been investigated regarding L2 writing development and assessment of English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL). However\, in respects to Spanish as a foreign o r second language (SFL/SSL) the research has focused on the development of writing skills (Gallego\, 2019\; García Salido & García\, 2018)\, but not o n predictors or writing proficiency that can inform L2 Spanish writing asse ssment\, such as lexical sophistication (Kim et al.\, 2017) or lexical dive rsity (Jarvis\, 2013)\, which have been investigated in ESL and EFL context s. This research gap in the L2 Spanish assessment literature\, coupled with the increasing Spanish L2 population (Instituto Cervantes\, 2020\; Data US A\, 2020)\, has guided this research project to investigate whether measure ments of lexical proficiency and lexical diversity can be used as predictor s of L2 Spanish proficiency\, particularly in the written medium. For these purposes\, an analysis of an L2 Spanish corpus of written essays was carri ed out\, with a Spanish corpus of books and media as a reference corpus. Sc ores of word frequency average\, moving-average type-token ratio (MATTR)\, and the number of words were compared with a proficiency scale determined f or each Spanish L2 participant who wrote at least one or more essays. A mul tiple regression model and a correlation calculation between these and othe r variables were carried out. The results show a strong correlation between proficiency and MTTR indices\, a weak correlation between average word fre quency\, and a significant multiple regression model that includes these an d other variables to help predict proficiency. DTEND:20210416T175000Z DTSTAMP:20241113T043406Z DTSTART:20210416T165500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium | Spanish L2 Writing Assessment\, April 16 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_35661775455376 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/linguistics_colloquium_spanish_l2_writi ng_assessment_april_16 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR