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  1. Task complexity and repetition effects on sense-aware lexical sophistication: An extension of Abdi Tabari et al.’s (2025) study on L1 and L2 learners

    Article • Journal of Second Language Studies, September 2026, John Benjamins

    Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar, Dr Xiaofei Lu

  2. Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies

    Article • Journal of Second Language Studies, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Dilin Liu, Isaiah WonHo Yoo, Dr Xiaofei Lu

  3. Corpus linguistics and second language studies

    Article • Journal of Second Language Studies, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Dilin Liu, Dr Xiaofei Lu, Isaiah WonHo Yoo

  4. Investigating effects of criterial consistency, the diversity dimension, and threshold variation in formulaic language research

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, October 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu, Michael Amory

  5. Automated measurement of syntactic complexity in corpus-based L2 writing research and implications for writing assessment

    Article • Language Testing, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  6. Automated Scoring of Students’ English-to-Chinese Translations of Three Text Types

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Xiaofei Lu, Dr Lihua Jiang

  7. Towards a metaphor-annotated corpus of Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Language Resources and Evaluation, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  8. The Relationship Between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

    Article • Modern Language Journal, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  9. Syntactic complexity in college-level English writing: Differences among writers with diverse L1 backgrounds

    Article • Journal of Second Language Writing, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  10. Computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA): Diagnosing L2 development according to learner responsiveness to mediation

    Article • Language Testing, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  11. Different topics, different discourse: Relationships among writing topic, measures of syntactic complexity, and judgments of writing quality

    Article • Journal of Second Language Writing, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  12. Automatic analysis of thematic structure in written English

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, March 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  13. Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula: An Analysis of Reading Text and Comprehension Tasks From 1910 to 2000

    Article • American Educational Research Journal, March 2015, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  14. Oral proficiency and pragmatic marker use in L2 spoken Spanish: The case of pues and bueno

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  15. Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, April 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  16. Computational Methods for Corpus Annotation and Analysis

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  17. Lexical Annotation

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  18. Syntactic Annotation

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  19. Introduction

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  20. Lexical Analysis

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  21. Summary and Outlook

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  22. Syntactic Analysis

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  23. Text Processing with the Command Line Interface

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  24. Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Analysis

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  25. Plain English and legal writing: Comparing expert and novice writers

    Article • English for Specific Purposes, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  26. Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards: A Historical Reanalysis of Text Complexity

    Article • Educational Researcher, September 2013, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  27. A Longitudinal Study of Receptive Vocabulary Breadth Knowledge Growth and Vocabulary Fluency Development

    Article • Applied Linguistics, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  28. GOŹDŹ-ROSZKOWSKI, STANISŁAW (Ed.). Explorations across Languages and Corpora. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 622. $139.95, cloth. ISBN 978-3-63161-677-2.

    Article • Modern Language Journal, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  29. Variability in Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners' Development of the Chinese Numeral Classifier System

    Article • Modern Language Journal, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  30. A corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students’ writing

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  31. The semiotic ecology and linguistic complexity of an online game world

    Article • ReCALL, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  32. The Relationship of Lexical Richness to the Quality of ESL Learners’ Oral Narratives

    Article • Modern Language Journal, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  33. A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Syntactic Complexity Measures as Indices of College-Level ESL Writers' Language Development

    Article • TESOL Quarterly, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  34. Informality Judgment at Sentence Level and Experiments with Formality Score

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  35. Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, October 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  36. Review of Xiao, Rayson & McEnery (2009): A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners

    Article • Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, June 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  37. Automatic measurement of syntactic complexity in child language acquisition

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, March 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  38. Improving part-of-speech guessing of Chinese unknown words using hybrid models

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, May 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  39. Hybrid models for sense guessing of Chinese unknown words

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, February 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  40. Hybrid methods for POS guessing of Chinese unknown words

    Article • January 2005, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr Xiaofei Lu

  41. What can corpus software reveal about language development?

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Xiaofei Lu