Abstract
This study was aimed to find out the effect of gender on linguistics properties of academic writing abstracts of Indonesian Male and Female EFL Learners. Therefore, the linguistics properties of 40 essays from EFL learners (20 males & 20 females) were analyzed on the lexical complexity (diversity and density). The participants were selected from a homogenous group of EFL learners who were sitting for Writing 1 (one) subject in the English Department Universitas Negeri Medan—Indonesia. A computerized text analysis program (Word Smith Tools) was employed to measure the lexical complexity of the EFL learners’ essays (descriptive writing). As a result, females indicated to write more lexical density way than males in their descriptive writing but no significant different on lexical diversity.
Highlights
One of the familiar genres in writing an essay is descriptive writing, and it has been taught to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Indonesia until now. Sumarsih & Sanjaya (2013, p. 108) define descriptive writing as “a paragraph that describes a particular person, place or event in great detail
This study was aimed to find out the effect of gender on linguistics properties of academic writing abstracts of Indonesian Male and Female EFL Learners
The participants were selected from a homogenous group of EFL learners who were sitting for Writing 1 subject in the English Department Universitas Negeri Medan—Indonesia
Summary
One of the familiar genres in writing an essay is descriptive writing, and it has been taught to EFL learners in Indonesia until now. Sumarsih & Sanjaya (2013, p. 108) define descriptive writing as “a paragraph that describes a particular person, place or event in great detail. In composing descriptive writing, an author should have wide vocabulary. Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams (2014) stated that lexis is concerned with the word meaning and the meaning of relationships among words in phrases and or sentences. Vocabulary is a subfield study of semantics, which is lexical semantics and morphology, which is a morpheme. It means that lexis is the main element in any piece of writing. In line with composing descriptive writing, the author ought to understand and fulfill the lexical category requirements to produce a very communicative descriptive text
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