Lexical Abilities in Adolescents’ Written Texts: A Research Study

In Secondary Education, text is a central point of reference. Junior high school and high school students are invited to understand and produce both narrative and non-narrative texts, with the latter task being substantially more challenging. Based on the above, the purpose of this study was to examine whether adolescent students differ in written speech production, according to their age and the type of text based on lexical criteria. The research was conducted in public junior high schools and high schools in Larissa. The results showed that the students examined are partly at the level of written speech production that corresponds to their age. An unexpected level of language development was also observed in terms of age and in terms of the two different types of texts they had to produce.