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Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
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The present study set out to examine the lexical profiles of L1 (n = 30) and proficient L2 students' presentations (n = 30), aiming at finding out the overall lexical composition of successful academic presentations. It was also of interest to see how some of the presentations' lexical features compared to findings about the lexical composition of students' productively used vocabulary in writing. In addition to this, the analysis focused on the lexical composition of both groups' oral production in an attempt to uncover patterns of lexical uses that may need to be discussed in oral communication courses, specifically targeting …