SFA-Lexical-Complexity

Supplementary materials for the journal article Structural Factor Analysis of Lexical Complexity Constructs and Measures:

Nasseri, M., & McCarthy, P. (2023). Structural Factor Analysis of Lexical Complexity Constructs and Measures: A Quantitative Measure-testing Process on Specialised Academic Texts. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2023. Link (If you need access to this research, please send a "full text request" via Research Gate and I'll send it to you :)

Repository sections:

• section A: Link access to the code/analysers

• Section B: Some additional explanation regarding the measure-selection process

• Section C: L1 backgrounds and ethnicities of EFL and ESL groups

• Section D: Structural diagrams from the CFA tests along with factor loadings

1. Diagram of the structure of lexical constructs and measures with factor loadings for the lexical model A
2. Diagram of the structure of lexical constructs and measures with factor loadings for the lexical model A1
3. Diagram of the structure of lexical constructs and measures with factor loadings for the lexical model A2
4. Diagram of the structure of lexical constructs and measures with factor loadings for the lexical model B
5. Diagram of the structure of lexical constructs and measures with factor loadings for the lexical model B2

Related Terms and Concepts to This Research:

Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Structural Factor Analysis (SFA)