Effect of the linguistic complexity of the input text on alignment, writing fluency, and writing accuracy in the continuation task.

Autor/inn/en	Peng, Jinfang; Wang, Chuming
Titel	Effect of the linguistic complexity of the input text on alignment, writing fluency, and writing accuracy in the continuation task.
Quelle	In: Language teaching research, 24 (2020) 3, S. 364-381Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 2; Anmerkungen 1; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-1688; 1477-0954
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englischunterricht; Schreiben; Aufgabenstellung; China
Abstract	Previous studies demonstrated that the continuation task has great language learning potential and that various task-related factors may affect the extent to which the potential can be exploited. This study investigates the effect of one understudied factor, the linguistic complexity of the input text, on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' alignment, writing fluency, and writing accuracy in the continuation task. Two comparable groups of Chinese undergraduate EFL learners read and continued a simplified and unsimplified version of the same incomplete story whose linguistic complexity matched and exceeded their production ability, respectively. Compared to the unsimplified version, the simplified version resulted in more automatic alignment and greater improvement in writing fluency and accuracy. The implications of these findings for writing pedagogy are discussed. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2