Relations between literacy-related abilities and the lexical quality of expository texts of Hebrew-speaking children (Relaciones entre habilidades relacionadas con el aprendizaje de la lengua escrita y la calidad léxica de los textos expositivos de niños hebreo-parlantes)

This study sought to explore the advanced lexicon, one of the hallmarks of text quality. To this end, we analysed the advanced lexicon deployed in the production of two types of texts — a descriptive and an argumentative — by Hebrew-speaking school children. Our study had two goals, the first to trace the developmental path of the use of advanced lexicon in writing scholastic types of texts. The second goal was to investigate the relations...