Longitudinal Relationships Between Linguistic Complexity Features and Second Language Writing

• 영문명: Longitudinal Relationships Between Linguistic Complexity Features and Second Language Writing
• 발행기관: 융합영어영문학회
• 저자명: 김민경(Min-kyung Kim) 김유진(You-jin Kim) 강상희(Sang-hee Kang)
• 간행물 정보: 『융합영어영문학(구.English Reading and Teaching)』제8권 3호, 291~324쪽, 전체 34쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

This study seeks to investigate how lexical, phraseological, and syntactic complexity features influence the argumentative writing scores of English as a foreign language (EFL) beginning-level learners over two semesters. The participants included 42 EFL students at the university level in a Japanese university. They generated six timed second language (L2) argumentative essays, which underwent subsequent analysis for lexical, phraseological, and syntactic complexity features. The findings suggest that linguistic complexity features significantly predicted L2 writing scores over time. Specifically, beginning-level learners attained higher scores in their L2 argumentative essays when incorporating more sophisticated content words, as demonstrated by elevated age-of-acquisition scores, increased phraseological sophistication utilizing frequently employed bigrams from an academic reference corpus, and enhanced global syntactic complexity through the use of longer T-units. In summary, this study emphasizes longitudinal connections between L2 writing scores and linguistic complexity.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Literature Review

III. Method

IV. Results

V. Discussion

VI. Conclusion

Work Cited

키워드

제2언어 글쓰기 언어적 복잡성 어휘적 복잡성 어구적 복잡성 통사적 복잡성 L2 writing linguistic complexity lexical complexity phraseological complexity syntactic complexity