Help needed with the interpretation of eat_types_AW in TAALES 2.2

[Shue Sum Leung]

Hi All,

I am having some difficulty interpreting eat_types generated by TAALES. I understand from Kyle et al. (2018) this index measures the number of word types freely associated with other words, and so a word with a larger value can be said to be less contextually distinct and potentially less sophisticated. But interestingly, association word types (assuming this is the same index) was found to be a positive predictor (r = .241) for word choice scores  (according to Table 5). That is a bit counter-intuitive so I wonder if anyone has any explanation about it.  Thanks so much in advance. 

Regards,

Rory

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This is a good source

Berger, C. M., Crossley, S., & Kyle, K. (2017). Using novel word context measures to predict human ratings of lexical proficiency. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20 (2), 201-212.