Table 1 Indices of CAF
From: Effects of input text genre on Chinese young EFL learners’ performance on continuation tasks
Dimension | Indices | Methods |
|---|---|---|
Complexity | ||
Syntactic | Mean Length of Sentence (MLS) | Coh-Metrix |
Mean Length of Clause (MLC) | Manual coding | |
Mean Length of T-unit (MLT) | Manual coding | |
Clause/T-unit (C/T) | Manual coding | |
Dependent Clause/Clause (DC/T) | Manual coding | |
Words before main verbs (WBV) | Coh-Metrix | |
Number of modifiers before NP (NM) | Coh-Metrix | |
Passive voice density (PD) | Coh-Metrix | |
Syntax Similarity of adjacent sentences (SS) | Coh-Metrix | |
Lexical | Type-token ratio (TTR) | Coh-Metrix |
Measure of Textual Lexical Diversity (MTLD) | Coh-Metrix | |
Incidence of content words (InCW) | Coh-Metrix | |
Concreteness for content words (CCW) | Coh-Metrix | |
Imageability for content words (ICW) | Coh-Metrix | |
CELEX Log minimum frequency for content words (LogMF) | Coh-Metrix | |
Accuracy | error-free T-units/T-units (ET/T) | Manual coding |
errors/T-units (E/T) | Manual coding | |
Fluency | Words (W) | Coh-Metrix |