Medir a qualidade da escrita em Português L2 a densidade de ideias

The paper proposes to look at idea density as a measure of lexical richness and precision in L2 Portuguese. Idea (Kemper et al. 2001; Snowdon 1999) is that has been associated with grammatical complexity study about the quality L1 writing different stages life. Nevertheless, we argue same analysis methodology can be useful evaluation Portuguese writing. Thus, propose task, synthesis, written by group adult learners advanced based on method used (1999). results show found texts not very high, which may due lack motivation for writing, well familiarity register.