Lexical Complexity in The Writings of Iraqi, English L2, and English L1 Writers

: Lexical complexity is an essential construct in L2 writing studies. It has been widely utilized to evaluate quality and writers’ proficiency. Measures of lexical were considered reliable indicators quality. The more measures score, the high-quality rating writing. Since are correlated with quality, investigating Iraqi writers, comparing it other groups such as English L1 intends describe current situation writers terms using language for research publication purposes. This study utilizes corpus-based method analyze compare texts linguistics articles RAs written by Iraqi, L2, published international journals indexed Scopus database. Eight calculated Complexity Analyzer LCA. findings revealed a significant difference between writers. There gap writings complex items. lowest amount their RAs.