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Longitudinal Growth Trajectories of Written Syntactic Complexity: The Case of Turkish Learners in an Intensive English Program

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Polat, Nihat; Mahalingappa, Laura; Mancilla, Rae L. – Applied Linguistics, 2020

This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners over three semesters, the study addressed the following questions: which indices of syntactic complexity characterize the writing…

Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)