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Exploring Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in Narrative Tasks
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- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 인문대학 영어영문학과
- Citation
- 영학논집, Vol.33, pp. 151-174
- Keywords
- complexity ; accuracy ; fluency ; CAF ; writing assessment ; Tradeoff Hypothesis ; Cognition Hypothesis ; task difficulty
- Abstract
- Improved complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) is an often-stated goal of writing instruction, but there are few clear or well-established guidelines for describing and analyzing CAF. This paper looks at various measures of CAF as well as two theories for describing how they interact: Trade-off Hypothesis and Cognition Hypothesis. A study was conducted with 3 groups—a group of 3
native English speakers; one of 7 advanced non-native English speakers, and another of 9 intermediate non-native speakers—on two separate writing tasks developed in Tavakoli and Foster (2011). Analysis of the output was done utilizing a variety of measures discussed in the paper. The study offered support, albeit weak, for Trade-off Hypothesis. Suggestions for future research and improvements to analysis are suggested.
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- English
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