The Correlation Between Lexical Richness and Norwegian Lower Secondary School EFL Teachers’ Assessment of Written Compositions

2019

Master's thesis education EN502 - University of Agder 2019 This master thesis investigates Norwegian lower secondary EFL teachers’assessment of their students’written compositions. It focusses on the vocabulary skills these students displayandaims to reveal whether the level of vocabulary each student reveals is consistent with the grade their texts receivefrom their teachers.Words are thebuilding blocks of our language (Read, 2000, p.1), one would not get fartrying to communicate in a language without knowing its words.Analysing a texts lexical richness is a way of measuring the vocabulary level of the text.A text’s lexical richness describes how developed the vocabularyofthe text is(Cobb …