Defining and operationalising L2 complexity

By Bram Bulté, Alex Housen. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PERCEIVED FLUENCY: AN INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEXITY, ACCURACY, AND FLUENCY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH (2019, background): “Although Bulté and Housen (2012) propose a comprehensive typology of sub-dimensions of linguistic complexity, the current study focuses on two major facets of linguistic complexity: syntactic and lexical complexity.”
Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices (2018, methodology): “The widespread use of large-grained syntactic complexity indices has recently been the topic of much interest and criticism in the wider field of applied linguistics (Biber et al., 2011; Bulté & Housen, 2012; Norris & Ortega, 2009).”
Conceptualizing and measuring short-term changes in L2 writing complexity (2014, background): “A recent attempt to capture this multidimensionality is Bulté and Housen (2012). They present a taxonomic model of different approaches to, and components of, language complexity as it has been applied and interpreted in L2 research (cf.”
The Development of Second Language Writing Complexity in Groups and Individuals: A Longitudinal Learner Corpus Study (2012, methodology): “Complexity is defined as “[t]he extent to which the language produced in performing a task is elaborate and varied” (Ellis, 2003, p. 340) andmay include both syntactic and lexical features (see Bulté & Housen, 2012 and Ortega, 2012 for an extended discussion).”
Assessing syntactic sophistication in L2 writing: A usage-based approach (2017, background): “Over the past 45 years syntactic sophistication, which is analogous to what Bulté and Housen (2012) refer to as relative complexity (i.e., the relative difficulty of learning, using, and/or comprehending a particular structure) has been primarily operationalized in terms of absolute complexity…”
Examining the impact of flipped classroom on writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency: a case of EFL students (2020, methodology): “In addition, since these writing CAF measures (those used by Wigglesworth & Storch, 2009) have been widely used in the previous studies ( Abrams & Byrd, 2017; Amiryousefi, 2016; Bult e & Housen, 2012; Knoch et al., 2015; Norris & Ortega, 2009; among others ), we preferred these measures for the sake”
Effects of Task Complexity on L2 Writing Behaviors and Linguistic Complexity (2017, methodology): “work by Bulté and Housen (2012) and Norris and Ortega (2009): overall complexity, subordination complexity, phrasal complexity, and syntactic sophistication.”