READING ON LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY

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No. Year/Author Focus Gaps Data Method Findings Reference
1 2017/ Syntactic and no research Writing Quantitative the syntactic and semantic Amer Delić & Alma
OK Amer Delić Semantic exists on 40 text of 4 Five Measure: mean length complexity of writing Jahić Jašić. Linguistic
& Alma Complexity linguistic Grades of sentence (MLS), mean increases in later grades; complexity in high-
Jahić Jašić complexity in Bosnian- length of clause (MLC), however, this increase is not school students’ EFL
writing by Herzegovinian clauses per t-unit (C/T), t- consistent across all grades writing
students in the high school units per sentence (T/S), and ExELL (Explorations in
local EFL complex nominals per t-unit English Language and
context, we (CN/T) Linguistics) 5.2 (2017):
believe that 122-146 DOI:
the current ANOVA-Tukey post hoc 10.2478/exell-2019-
study can 0003
contribute to
the existing
pool of
research on
this topic
Sig. practical
applications
in EFL
teaching.
2 2014/ Writing *The so far 35 linguistic Quantitative more proficient writers Kim, Ji-Young. (2014).
Ji-young Proficiency – analysis has measures in the L2 Syntactic produced longer texts, used Predicting L2 writing
Kim Linguistic been limited 234 essays Complexity Analyzer and more diverse vocabulary, and proficiency using
Complexity to elucidating selected from Lexical Complexity showed the ability to write linguistic complexity
(ext length, a limited the Yonsei Analyzer more words per sentence and measures: A corpus-
lexical number of English more complex based study. English
complexity, linguistic Learner nominalizations Teaching, 69(4), 27-51.
and syntactic features. Corpus
complexity) *No studies
have
linguistic investigated
development L2 writing
of L2 writers features using
both
comprehensiv
e measures of
lexical and
syntactic
complexity
3 2018/ Language No study 42 Indonesian Quantitative there is no exactly the same Dakhi, S., & Hutabarat,
Dakhi, S., & Effectiveness covers Undergraduate online system application at lexical density and H. (2018). Language
Hutabarat, H language Theses http://textalyser.net/index.p grammatical complexity effectiveness and factors
effectiveness hp?lang=en#anal ysis (for across chapters of the influencing scientific
of students lexical density) offered by undergraduate theses. writing of Indonesian
theses the Bernhard Huber Internet undergraduate thesis.
Engineering Company and English Review: Journal
http://www.readabilityform of English Education,
ulas.com/freetest s/six- 7(1), 61-74. doi:
readability-formulas.php 10.25134/erjee.v7i1.149
(for grammatical 6.
complexity)

4 2018/ Language Literacy 3 sets of Qualitative those linguistic features Jingjing Hu & Xuesong
Hu & Gao Demand in Development textbooks used systemic functional which are difficult for the (Andy) Gao. Linguistic
Social and the for teaching linguistics (Halliday & learners are commonly used, demands in English-
Sciences important if science Martin, 1993), the difficult language is not language science
Textbook Linguistic informational density, introduced progressively, and textbooks in Hong Kong
Features abstraction, technicality and the language difficulty levels The Asian Journal of
authoritativeness are not consistent in the Applied Linguistics Vol.
science textbooks. 5 No. 1, 2018, pp. 170-
Alternative linguistic choices 180
are used in the analysed texts,
which replace the abstract
nouns and complex lengthy
nouns, with the techniques of
noun replacement, de-
nominalization, and
information unpacking.
Information reduction is also
used, which can decrease the
abstraction and information
density.
5 2018/ SC in online So far focus 10 online Quantitative the non-native online Dwi Indarti. 2018.
Dwi Indarti* newspaper in on newspaper Second Language Syntactic newspaper shows Syntactic Complexity of
academic across Complexity Analyzer the most complexity of Online Newspaper
writing, less countries (L2SCA) program displays sentence structure as Editorials across
in newspaper fourteen syntactic indicated in the length of Countries. STUDIES IN
complexity measures. production unit which ENGLISH LANGUAGE
correlate with higher levels AND EDUCATION,
of proficiency. Meanwhile, 5(2), 294-307, 2018
the native online newspaper https://doi.org/10.24815/
 displays the siele.v5i2.11320
highest score of
subordination, which indicate
complexity at the beginning
and
intermediate levels of
proficiency.
6 2018/ Textbook Less texts 2,928 texts Quantitative there Karin Berendes &
Karin Reading were involved from computational linguistic were significant differences Sowmya Vajjala. 2018.
Berendes in previous geography research across grade levels and Reading Demands in
studies textbooks lexical, syntactic, school tracks for some of the Secondary School: Does
from four morphological, and ten linguistic features. the Linguistic
publishers in cohesion-related there were marked Complexity of
Germany features and developed text differences among publishers. Textbooks Increase With
classification models for Grade Level and the
predicting the grade level Academic Orientation of
(Grades 5 to 10) and the
school track (academic vs. School Track?. Journal
vocational) of Educational
Psychology © 2017
American Psychological
Association
2018, Vol. 110, No. 4,
518–543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037
/edu0000225
7 2019/ SBMPTN SBMPTN English Exam Quantitative The reading test shows the Windy Ardianita Sari.
Windy English Exam is Paper L2 Syntactic Complexity high syntactic complexity as 2019. Lexical richness
Ardianita Exam Paper complicated 3-4 text analyzer, AntWord the college level English and syntactic complexity
Sari 2009-2018 Approximately writing and undergraduate of the English exam
15 questions research article papers of SBMPTN.
Universitas Airlangga.
Published Thesis
8 2020/ Lexical English Qualitative: The book contained low Adityo Prawinanto
Adityo Density: textbook for Content Analysis lexical density and is Barli Bram. 2020.
Prawinanto Adjective senior high appropriate for students. Adjective and noun
Barli Bram and noun school clause lexical density in
clause students in an english textbook for
Indonesia senior high school
students.
Journal GEEJ Volume
7, Number 2, November
 2020
9 2013/ Correlation - 4 Reading text Quantitative The pupils reading JESSIE S. BARROT.
JESSIE S. between 60 students Sixty pupils from three comprehension progressed as 2013.
BARROT level and (grade 2, 4, 6) grade levels (2, 4, and 6) they advance in grade level. Revisiting the role of
complexity were asked to read four The lexical feature of the linguistic complexity in
texts with varying text reading texts becomes more ESL reading
difficulty level from which complex as grade level comprehension.
the most comprehensible advances. 3L: The Southeast Asian
text per grade level was Syntactic Feature Journal of English
identified after a may not be a crucial factor in Language Studies – Vol
comprehension test. text readability and in 19(1): 5 – 18
reading comprehension as a
whole
10 2020/ Writing - review - Syntactic complexity Crossley, S.A. (2020).
Crossley, quality determine writing quality Linguistic features in
S.A. writing quality and
development: An
overview.
Journal of Writing
Research, 11(3), 415-
443.
https://doi.org/10.17239/
jowr-2020.11.03.01
11 2020/ Syntactic - Teacher, Quantitative Syntactic complexity affects NOUI Boutheyna .
NOUI complexity students, Questionnaire the reading ability of pupils 2020. The Effect of
Boutheyna and textbok and hinders their Syntactic Complexity on
Readability comprehensibility of the Readability of the
textbook’ texts. The findings Official Textbook
also indicate that the course- The Case Study of
book’ texts do not suit neither ‘Getting Through’
the syntactic level of pupils, Second Year Secondary
nor the pupil’s interests, Schoo l Learners.
needs and age. LARBI BEN M’HIDI
UNIVERSITY-OUM
EL BOUAGHI.
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