Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice
Table 1: Evaluation of the English proficiency of non-native Reddit users.
['[BOLD] Population', '[BOLD] Mean TU length', '[BOLD] Complex TU ratio', '[BOLD] TTR', '[BOLD] Mean word rank', '[BOLD] AoA']
Across almost all indices, the level of Reddit non-natives is much higher than even the advanced TOEFL learners, and almost on par with Reddit natives.