Syntactic Complexity Measures and their Relationship to L2 Proficiency: A Research Synthesis of College-level L2 Writting  

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Ortega, Lourdes

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 4 (Dec. 2003), page 492-518.
Topik: linguistics
Fulltext: 24,4;492-518.pdf (1.26MB)

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In this study I evaluate the cumulative evidence on the use of syntactic complexity measures as indices of college-level L2 writers' overall proficiency in the target language. Based on a synthesis of twenty-five studies, I arrive at several substantive findings. First, I conclude that the relationship between L2 proficiency and L2 writing syntactic complexity varied systematically across studies depending on whether a second or a foreign language learning context was investigated and whether proficiency was defined by programme level or by holistic rating. Second, aggregating available cross-sectional findings, I propose critical magnitudes for between-proficiency differences in syntactic complexity for four measures. Finally, I interpret the limited longitudinal evidence to suggest that an observation period of roughly a year of college-level instruction is probably needed for substantial changes in the syntactic complexity of L2 writing to be observed. I conclude the paper by discussing implications of these findings for future primary research.

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