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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Sima Khezrlou; Yu Tian – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This study examines the extent to which verb argument construction (VAC) based indices of syntactic complexity could predict four different writing task conditions: a simple task with no repetition (S + NR), a simple task with repetition (S + R), a complex task with no repetition (C + NR), and a complex task with repetition (C + R). Ninety-six…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, College Students, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Xiaofei Lu; Yizhou Wang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the relationship between task complexity, textual emotionality, and linguistic complexity in second language (L2) writing. Fifty-eight L2 English learners performed simple and complex versions of an argumentative writing task manipulated along with resource-­directing variables. The essays were first analysed for textual…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hyesook Park – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The present study examines the linguistic features of Korean college students' English writings in terms of their writing quality and genre. Forty-eight Korean college students took part in the study, and their writing samples, comprised of narrative and exposition compositions, were collected to analyze on the basis of fluency and syntactic…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Syntax, English (Second Language)
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Ning Fan; Yingying Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Researchers have been investigating the effects of different planning conditions on learners' second language (L2) writing performance. However, whether such effects differ regarding specific planning conditions and task complexity has remained underexplored. This study examined the effects of pre-task planning (PTP) versus unpressured online…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Çanakli, Levent Ali; Bastürk, Sükrü – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
As in teaching other languages, the most difficult of the four basic skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language is writing; it includes very different strategies from sequencing to analysis and synthesis. In addition, foreign language learners tend to transfer the forms and meanings of their own culture and language to the target language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
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Thi, Nang Kham; Vo, De Van; Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Students' writing proficiency is measured through holistic and analytical ratings in writing assessment; however, recent studies suggest that measurement of syntactic complexity in second language writing research has become an effective measure of writing proficiency. Within this paradigm, we investigated how automated measurement of syntactic…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Computational Linguistics, Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Minyoung Cho – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To test the predictive power of the SSARC (stabilize, simplify, automatize, reconstruct, and complexify) model of pedagogic task sequencing in second language (L2) writing development, the present study explores the performance of written decision-making tasks with varied levels of cognitive complexity in a simple-to-complex sequence in comparison…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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Grant Eckstein; Lisa Bell – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
First-year composition courses must balance a range of writing instruction priorities including genre and audience awareness with language instruction, particularly for second-language writers. Despite the attested efficacy of "dynamic" written corrective feedback for language gains in intensive English programs, little research has…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Error Correction
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Yiding Zhao – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Idioms are highly conventionalized expressions that allow users to express beyond literal meanings. Despite the language difference, counterparts of idioms may overlap cross-culturally due to similar origin, social habits, and experiences. It is therefore interesting to probe whether L2 learners may benefit from deliberate instructions built on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Moore, Miriam – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
This study examines the nature of metalinguistic awareness in first-year college writers enrolled in two-year degree programs, corequisite support courses, or both. Metalinguistic awareness is an ability to systematize knowledge about language and use that knowledge to monitor language as language. Participants in the study completed reading…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Syntax, College Freshmen, Writing Instruction
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Rastgou, Ali; Storch, Neomy; Knoch, Ute – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
Despite teachers' mainstream practices in L2 writing classrooms addressing different dimensions of writing over time, much of the research on feedback in recent years has been of relative short duration and has mainly focused on accuracy. The current longitudinal study investigated the influence of sustained teacher written feedback on accuracy,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Cheng, Shuk Ling – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This paper examines the English grammatical errors and their patterns in the written assignments of a General Education course at City University of Hong Kong. Subjects are 60 local and non-local (exchange) undergraduate students who are all L2 learners with diversified education and disciplinary background (i. e. their major of study) which are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Restrepo-Ramos, Falcon – Hispania, 2021
This study examines the linguistic complexity of Spanish as a second language (L2) in learners' essays across proficiency levels at two timelines of a composition class during a college semester. Data comes from 22 L2 learners of Spanish enrolled in two sections of a third-year composition class at the college level, who were assigned nine…
Descriptors: Spanish, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Luo, Xiaobo – English Language Teaching, 2022
From the perspective of complexity theory and based on Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis and the Triadic Componential Framework, this paper investigated the effect of manipulating task complexity along resource-dispersing dimension on L2 written performance. The results showed that: 1) Significant interactive effects were found between the two…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Smirnova, Elizaveta – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Syntactic complexity has been extensively approached in the fields of corpus linguistics and academic discourse studies. However, works focusing on disciplinary variation in terms of linguistic complexity and comparison of professional and novice academic writing are scarce. Addressing these issues is likely to have important implications for…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Writing (Composition), Syntax, English for Academic Purposes
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