Studying French

I came across a paper about a study similar to my research that was done for French. For the academically inclined, you can read the paper here:

Anais Tack, Thomas Francois, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Cedrick Fairon Evaluating Lexical Simplification and Vocabulary Knowledge for Learners of French: Possibilities of Using the FLELex Resource LREC 2016

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/544_Paper.pdf