Does L2 writing proficiency influence noun phrase complexity? A case analysis of argumentative essays written by Chinese students in a first-year composition course

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2019 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:System, volume 85, page 102,116 (issn: 0346-251X,

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Authors: Ge Lan; Kyle Lucas; Yachao Sun;

doi: 10.1016/j.system.2019.102116

Does L2 writing proficiency influence noun phrase complexity? A case analysis of argumentative essays written by Chinese students in a first-year composition course

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Abstract This corpus-based study investigated the association between noun phrase complexity and L2 writing proficiency based on the 11 noun modifiers in Biber, Gray, and Poonpon's (2011) index of complexity features. A corpus was built based on 100 argumentative papers written by first-year Chinese students, including 50 papers from high-proficiency students (TOEFL writing score > 23) and 50 papers from low-proficiency students (18

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