Studies on lexical availability (LA) reveal a different dimension of vocabulary knowledge and development. Likewise, this study explores (a) the relationship between LA and writing ability of male and female learners and (b) differences and similarities between the tokens and types of the words they generated. An LA task and a composition test were administered to 100 (50 males and 50 females) EFL learners. The results highlight a positive correlation between LA and the writing scores for both males and females. Frequency analyses and t‐test results also show no differences between male and female learners in terms of tokens and types of the retrieved words. Thus, lexical availability studies can provide similar pedagogical implications in instructing writing skill for both male and female EFL learners.

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EFL学习者的词汇可用性和写作能力

词汇可用性（LA）的研究揭示了词汇知识和发展的不同维度。同样，本研究探讨（a）洛杉矶与男女学习者的写作能力之间的关系，以及（b）所产生的单词的标记和类型之间的异同。对100名（50名男性和50名女性）EFL学习者进行了LA任务和作文测试。结果突显了洛杉矶与男性和女性的写作成绩之间呈正相关。频率分析和t检验结果也表明，男女学习者在记号和检索词的类型方面没有差异。因此，词汇可用性研究可以在指导男性和女性英语学习者的写作技巧方面提供相似的教学意义。