The Place of Lexical Richness in EFL Teachers’ Holistic Assessment of English Majors’ Essays The Case of EFL Teachers at the Department of English Language, University of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia, Jijel"

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of the elements that teachers highlight in their assessment of students’ writing. Several studies have shown that lexical richness, that encompasses lexical diversity, lexical density and lexical sophistication, has an impact on the quality of students' essays. The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between lexical richness and teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) holistic assessment of English Majors' essays. The study, also, attempted to identify the teachers' perceptions of the place of lexical richness assessment of EFL majors’ essays. To achieve these aims, a correlational test is conducted to measure the strength and direction of the relationship between lexical richness in 15 essays written by third-year students at the Department of English, University of Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia and the holistic scores allocated by four raters