ABSTRACT
Chapters 6 reports on a new empirical study which analysed a whole host of lexical and phraseological indices as well as raters’ scores produced for 150 essays written by L2 learners of English at upper-intermediate and advanced levels as well as English native speakers. The results of vocabulary tests administered to the L2 learners are also presented and discussed. In addition to the quantitative scrutiny of the results, the report also contains an examination of qualitative data consisting in interviews with the raters. The results of the analyses offer interesting, perplexing and sometimes even contradictory insights into the lexical quality of the analysed texts as well as the instruments and procedures applied in their evaluation. The discussion reinterprets the results in a larger context of assessment of lexical proficiency and lexical competence.
