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Do EFL Learners Use Different Grammatical Complexity Features in Writing across Registers?
| العنوان: | Do EFL Learners Use Different Grammatical Complexity Features in Writing across Registers? |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Qin, Wenjuan, Zhang, Xizi |
| المصدر: | Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Oct 2023 36(8):1939-1967. |
| الإتاحة: | Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 29 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2023 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Grammar, Difficulty Level, Academic Language, Standard Spoken Usage, Adolescents, Adults, Writing Tests, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11145-022-10367-2 |
| تدمد: | 0922-4777 1573-0905 |
| مستخلص: | In successful writing development, English as a foreign language (EFL) learners not only need to acquire grammatical complexity (GC) features but also know when and how to use them flexibly across communicative contexts, known as register flexibility. The present study, guided by the sociocultural theory of language learning, examines descriptive features and developmental patterns of register flexibility, operationalized as cross-register variations in GC features in academic and colloquial writing. The sample contains 205 late adolescent and adult EFL learners, each completing two writing tasks designed to address distinct audiences, purposes, and channels of communication. Using corpus-based descriptive measures (i.e., Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English), the study analyzes a variety of structural forms and syntactic functions relevant to differentiating academic and colloquial registers. Results reveal that EFL learners show clear cross-register variations in GC features prevalent in the academic register (e.g., finite noun-complement clauses and phrasal noun modifiers) but a lack of cross-register variation in GC features prevalent in the colloquial register (e.g., non-finite adverbial and verb-complement clauses). English proficiency is found to be associated with register flexibility in only one GC feature: phrasal noun modifiers. The study adds to the growing body of research that emphasizes combining grammatical forms and communicative functions in EFL writing instruction and measurement. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1390406 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11145-022-10367-2 |