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Dynamic Development in Speaking versus Writing in Identical Twins
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Chan, HuiPing; Verspoor, Marjolijn; Vahtrick, Louisa – Language Learning, 2015
Taking a dynamic usage-based perspective, this longitudinal case study compares the development of sentence complexity in speaking versus writing in two beginner Taiwanese learners of English (identical twins) in an extensive corpus consisting of 100 oral and 100 written texts of approximately 200 words produced by each twin over 8 months. Three…
Descriptors: Twins, Syntax, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies