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DeKeyser, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
In this short article I try to present a taxonomy of sources of difficulty, in particular complexity. I emphasize how these factors interact with each other and with individual differences and treatments, before illustrating some of these interactions and the methodological issues involved in studying them with examples from the empirical studies…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Difficulty Level, Individual Differences, Second Language Learning