Language Testing in Asia

Table 5 Comparison of lexical complexity indices between genres

From: Effects of input text genre on Chinese young EFL learners’ performance on continuation tasks

	Index	Mean	Std. deviation	t	df	P
1	TTR_NA-TTR_AR	-0.018	0.108	-0.927	29	0.362
2	MTLD_NA-MTLD_AR	0.177	32.795	0.030	29	0.977
3	InCW_NA-InCW_AR	-59.717	79.287	-4.125	29	0.000**
4	CCW_NA-CCW_AR	17.773	32.578	2.988	29	0.006**
5	ICW_NA-ICW_AR	13.479	29.613	2.493	29	0.019
6	LogMF_NA-LogMF_AR	0.304	0.392	4.249	29	0.000**

Note: **p < 0.01

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