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Measurement of functional adequacy in different learning contexts:Rationale, key issues, and future perspectives
Syntactic complexity across proficiency and languages: L2 and L1 writing in Dutch, Italian and Spanish
The interplay between academic writing abilities of Dutch undergraduate students, a remedial programme, and academic achievement
La valutazione della complessità sintattica nella classe di lingua.:Un’analisi delle riflessioni di insegnanti di italiano L2
This paper aims to investigate how language teachers perceive syntactic complexity in L2 writing and to what extent teachers’ judgments are related to current theoretical views in the research literature on Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Sixteen L2 teachers were asked to evaluate the syntactic complexity of a sample of argumentative texts written by L2 university students of Italian. In the panel discussion that followed, teachers discussed the motivations behind their assigned scores and the feedback they had proposed. The results revealed that teachers tended to focus primarily on accuracy and comprehensibility, and much less on syntactic complexity. Teachers’ reflections appeared to be only partly aligned with existing theoretical views on syntactic complexity in the SLA literature
Linguistic predictors of academic achievement amongst international students and home students in higher education: Introduction
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