A Comparative Study of Abstraction and Informational Density in Higher and Lower Indonesian Graduate Students' L2 English Academic Texts

Autor/in	Subandowo, Dedy
Titel	A Comparative Study of Abstraction and Informational Density in Higher and Lower Indonesian Graduate Students' L2 English Academic Texts
Quelle	In: Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 13 (2023) 2, S.230-244 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Subandowo, Dedy)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Academic Language; Foreign Students; Writing Evaluation; Writing Improvement; Essays; Language Proficiency; Nouns; Verbs; Form Classes (Languages); Comparative Analysis; Difficulty Level; Indonesia; Hungary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Analytischer Sprachbau; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Indonesien; Ungarn
Abstract	The language features of the second language (L2) English academic texts written by Indonesian graduate students enrolled in Hungarian higher education are employed in the present study. The study focuses on the level of abstraction and informational density in student assignments in particular. Seven high-stakes essays were collected from seven Indonesian graduate students registered in the faculty of Social Sciences at three different Hungarian universities. Coh-Metrix, a corpus-based computational tool, was used in this study to examine indices of content words and abstraction. As for the comparison between higher and lower proficiency level students, parametric statistics were used to conduct a quantitative analysis of the selected linguistic features, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and concreteness and abstraction. The results show that C1 English proficiency level students outnumber B2 students in terms of informational density. Their texts are more abstract than those of B2 students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01