Task Complexity and Language Production Dilemmas (Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis vs. Skehan's Trade-off Model)

Salimi, Asghar; Dadashpour, Soghra

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.177

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“…The outcomes of the present study are in line with the findings of studies like [12], [40], [25], [29]. Though, the outcomes of the present study in terms of accuracy ran against the results of the studies like [41], [2], [42], [43].…”

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The Effect of Task Complexity and Strategic Planning Time on Writing Accuracy: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students at AMU

Kord¹

2018

IJLL

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Tasked -Based Language Teaching has widely provided learners some opportunities to learn spoken and written language through learning activities in the major of English Language Teaching (ELT). A growing body of research on the effects of task complexity on written productions, the present study explored the impacts of task complexity and strategic planning time on ESL learners' written performance in terms of accuracy. To this end, forty-five undergraduate English Language Learners, both male and female (within the age range of 17-25) have been recruited from Aligarh Muslim University. Two tasks were chosen as instruments for data collection. One is an argumentative essay and the other is a narrative task to measure the accuracy of the participants' written production, under different planning conditions (pre-task planning, withintask planning, and no planning). One-way MANOVA was employed as the statistical means of analysis. The findings revealed a significant effect of task complexity under different planning conditions on Error-free clauses (the percentage of clauses that do not contain any errors) and correct verb forms (the percentage of accurately used verbs in terms of tense, aspect, modality, and subject-verb agreement) regarding accuracy.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

The Effect of Task Complexity and Strategic Planning Time on Writing Accuracy: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students at AMU

Kord¹

2018

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“…For writing, the expected higher accuracy in complex reasoning tasks was reported in Kuiken and Vedder (2008). Higher linguistic complexity in complex writing tasks was obtained in Salimi and Dadashpour (2012) and Vasylets and Gilabert (2014), but no changes in this dimension were found by Kuiken and Vedder (2008).…”

Section: Task Complexity Effects In L2 Oral and Written Productionmentioning

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The Effects of Mode and Task Complexity on Second Language Production

2017

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Taking a psycholinguistic orientation within task‐based language teaching scholarship, this study investigated the effects of mode (oral vs. written) and task complexity on second language (L2) performance. The participants were 78 Catalan/Spanish learners of English as a foreign language. Half of the participants performed the simple and complex versions of an argumentative, instruction‐giving task orally, the other half did it in writing. The comparison of the participants’ oral and written performance revealed that speakers produced more idea units but that writers achieved higher scores for subordination, mean length of analysis‐of‐speech units, lexical diversity, extended idea units, and time on task. As for the effects of task complexity, the participants’ written production showed more variation between the complex and the simple versions of the task. These findings are interpreted in light of task modality effects in L2 learning and discussed in relation to task complexity theory and research.

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“…Learners' second language complexity was measured with regard to L2 lexical diversity usage (Rahimpour, 2008;Salimi & Dadashpour, 2012;Ishikawa, 2006), described in the formula below:…”

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“…Ishikawa (2006) measured fluency of L2 written production as the number of words divided by T-Units. The main clauses were added to the subordinate clauses (attached or embedded in the main clause) to count as T-Units (Long, 1991;Salimi & Dadashpour, 2012). T-Units in this case mean total sum of main and subordinate clauses in learners' L2 written sample (Ishikawa, 2006;Salimi & Dadashpour, 2012;Long, 1991).…”

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“…In current study learners' L2 accuracy was measured as error-free T-units divided by T-units. It means, only that T-unit was counted as error free T-units which was free from grammatical, syntactical and spelling error (Rahimpour, 2008;Ishikawa, 2006;Salimi & Dadashpour, 2012). In simple words accuracy was measured by counting total number of error free clauses divided by the total number of clauses in the speech or written sample of the target language.…”

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The Effect of Task Based Language Teaching on Writing Skills of EFL Learners in Malaysia

Ahmed¹,

Bidin²

2016

OJML

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This quasi experimental study has validated the effectiveness of Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in promoting writing skills of EFL learners enrolled in undergraduate programs at public sector Malaysian universities. TBLT is emerging as an essential part of curricula in language pedagogies in several countries around the globe and advocated by prominent SLA researchers along with ELT practitioners. In current study research participants were divided into an experimental and a control group. The data were collected following a Mixed Method Research paradigm during pretest and posttest. A Paired Samples T-test was used to determine the statistical significance of the learners' scores in pretest as compared to the posttest. The vast majority of the learners opined in their reflective journal that TBLT was the most interesting and a learner centered approach enabling learners to use their existing linguistic resources. The use of existing linguistic resources is a fundamental principle of TBLT as it leads the EFL learners to be fluent and confident users of English language both inside and outside the classroom in real life situations.

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Task Complexity and Language Production Dilemmas (Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis vs. Skehan's Trade-off Model)

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

The Effect of Task Complexity and Strategic Planning Time on Writing Accuracy: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students at AMU

The Effect of Task Complexity and Strategic Planning Time on Writing Accuracy: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students at AMU

The Effects of Mode and Task Complexity on Second Language Production

The Effect of Task Based Language Teaching on Writing Skills of EFL Learners in Malaysia

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