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Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality
Despite accumulated research findings confirming the link of multiword sequences (MWSs) structures and functions to essay quality, as well as the connection between MWSs statistical features (e.g., their frequency and association strengths in BNC/COCA) and writing quality, to date no study integrate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36389506 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1026658 |
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description | Despite accumulated research findings confirming the link of multiword sequences (MWSs) structures and functions to essay quality, as well as the connection between MWSs statistical features (e.g., their frequency and association strengths in BNC/COCA) and writing quality, to date no study integrated these two separate lines of investigations. It remains to investigate whether and how MWSs structures, functions and their statistical features jointly affect writing quality. Drawing on 900 rated argumentative essays composed by Chinese grade 12 students in National Matriculation Test, the present study employed CollGram to automatically identify the nativelike 4-word sequences in these essays and to analyze their frequency and Mutual Information (MI) scores in COCA. The structures and functions of frequent nativelike 4-word sequences were also analyzed manually. A serial of linear mixed-effect models was constructed to investigate their main effects as well as interaction effects on essay scores. The best fit model revealed the links of higher essay scores to higher MI scores, to more noun-phrase sequences, to more stance sequences, as well as to fewer referential sequences. Additionally, the interaction of prepositional phrase sequences and their frequency in COCA affected essay scores, so did the interaction of verb phrase sequences and their MI in COCA, as well as the interaction of noun phrase sequences and their MI in COCA. The findings provide new insights into the complex interaction between MWSs structures, functions and their statistical features, as well as their joint effects on writing quality. |
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spelling | pubmed-96622932022-11-15 Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality Li, Yuan Ke Fang, An Bang Front Psychol Psychology Despite accumulated research findings confirming the link of multiword sequences (MWSs) structures and functions to essay quality, as well as the connection between MWSs statistical features (e.g., their frequency and association strengths in BNC/COCA) and writing quality, to date no study integrated these two separate lines of investigations. It remains to investigate whether and how MWSs structures, functions and their statistical features jointly affect writing quality. Drawing on 900 rated argumentative essays composed by Chinese grade 12 students in National Matriculation Test, the present study employed CollGram to automatically identify the nativelike 4-word sequences in these essays and to analyze their frequency and Mutual Information (MI) scores in COCA. The structures and functions of frequent nativelike 4-word sequences were also analyzed manually. A serial of linear mixed-effect models was constructed to investigate their main effects as well as interaction effects on essay scores. The best fit model revealed the links of higher essay scores to higher MI scores, to more noun-phrase sequences, to more stance sequences, as well as to fewer referential sequences. Additionally, the interaction of prepositional phrase sequences and their frequency in COCA affected essay scores, so did the interaction of verb phrase sequences and their MI in COCA, as well as the interaction of noun phrase sequences and their MI in COCA. The findings provide new insights into the complex interaction between MWSs structures, functions and their statistical features, as well as their joint effects on writing quality. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9662293/ /pubmed/36389506 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1026658 Text en Copyright © 2022 Li and Fang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Li, Yuan Ke Fang, An Bang Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title | Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title_full | Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title_fullStr | Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title_full_unstemmed | Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title_short | Synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
title_sort | synergistic effects of multiword sequences structure, function, frequency and association on raters’ evaluations of essay quality |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36389506 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1026658 |
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