The The correlations between the average semester growth rates of syntactic and lexical complexity in L2 writing development at secondary school
Katarzyna Rokoszewska
Abstract:The article is devoted to the development of language complexity in a relatively under-researched area of adolescent writing from the point of view of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). It describes the second part of a panel study which aimed to examine the relationships among the average semester growth rates (ASGRs) of specific measures of syntactic and lexical complexity within and between these two subsystems in writing in English as a foreign language at the secondary school level. The study involved… Show more
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