The lexical performance of the students of the Journalism career

Abstract

The objective of this article is to determine the lexical performance of students entering the Journalism career. The predominant methodology is qualitative, although statistical methods such as lexical-statistics are used in data processing. 47% of the sample shows low lexical availability and the global lexical richness index is low, since only after 2.3 words in the first question and 2.6 in the second does a word of notional semantic content appear. It is concluded that the students who enrolled in the Journalism career at the University of Matanzas in the 2019-2020 academic year have a deficient lexicon, demonstrated in their lexical performance by measuring their availability and index of lexical richness.