Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels

This study, which is a part of a larger project on learner corpora, used a corpus linguistic approach to analyzing ESL writing produced by freshmen college students from five private schools in Metro Manila, Philippines, in their first week of classes. The data for the study includes (1) essay score...

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Main Author:	Leah Espada-Gustilo
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
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spelling	ukm-20492016-12-14T06:30:46Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2049/ Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels Leah Espada-Gustilo, This study, which is a part of a larger project on learner corpora, used a corpus linguistic approach to analyzing ESL writing produced by freshmen college students from five private schools in Metro Manila, Philippines, in their first week of classes. The data for the study includes (1) essay scores used to classify texts by levels of proficiency, (2) computer tagging results, and (3) MANOVA, ANOVA, and regression analyses. The analyses revealed that most of the general text characteristics (e.g. fluency, unique words, word per sentence, number of sentence, number of paragraphs) and lexical (except conjuncts), clause-level, and grammatical features all have a steady increase across proficiency levels. This implies that the (1) writers of high score essays (level 2 and 3) are likely to employ more of these structures, and (2) The employment of these structures impact the raters’ assignment of scores on the essays. The findings of the present study lead to tentative conclusions and implications for curricular enhancement and research. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2049/1/6._3LVol17%281%292011Leah_Gustilo.doc.pdf Leah Espada-Gustilo, (2011) Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 17 (1). pp. 55-64. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	This study, which is a part of a larger project on learner corpora, used a corpus linguistic approach to analyzing ESL writing produced by freshmen college students from five private schools in Metro Manila, Philippines, in their first week of classes. The data for the study includes (1) essay scores used to classify texts by levels of proficiency, (2) computer tagging results, and (3) MANOVA, ANOVA, and regression analyses. The analyses revealed that most of the general text characteristics (e.g. fluency, unique words, word per sentence, number of sentence, number of paragraphs) and lexical (except conjuncts), clause-level, and grammatical features all have a steady increase across proficiency levels. This implies that the (1) writers of high score essays (level 2 and 3) are likely to employ more of these structures, and (2) The employment of these structures impact the raters’ assignment of scores on the essays. The findings of the present study lead to tentative conclusions and implications for curricular enhancement and research.
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spellingShingle	Leah Espada-Gustilo, Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
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title	Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
title_short	Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
title_full	Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
title_fullStr	Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
title_full_unstemmed	Linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of ESL writing in three proficiency levels
title_sort	linguistic features that impact essay scores: a corpus linguistic analysis of esl writing in three proficiency levels
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2011
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2049/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2049/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2049/1/6._3LVol17%281%292011Leah_Gustilo.doc.pdf
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