A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Syntactic Complexity Measures as Indices of College-Level ESL Writers' Language Development

By Xiaofei Lu. 2011

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices (2018, methodology): “Future research should investigate nonlinear trends both cross-sectionally (e.g., Lu, 2011) and longitudinally (e.g., Verspoor, Schmid, & Xu, 2012).”
Assessing syntactic sophistication in L2 writing: A usage-based approach (2017, background): “One component of language that has been of interest to both writing assessment and language acquisition researchers is syntactic sophistication (Bulté & Housen, 2012; Knoch, Rouhshad, & Storch, 2014; Lu, 2011; Norris & Ortega, 2009).”
Linguistic features in writing quality and development: An overview (2020, methodology): “Syntactic complexity refers to the sophistication of syntactic forms as well as the variety of syntactic forms produced (Lu, 2011; Ortega, 2003).”
An update on discourse functions and syntactic complexity in synchronous and asynchronous communication (2016, positive): “…to L2 proficiency by scholars in extensive surveys of L2 writing research (Wolfe-Quintero, Inagaki, & Kim, 1998), meta-analyses of empirical research on grammatical complexity (Ortega, 2003), and corpus-based analyses measuring college-level ESL writers’ language development (Lu, 2011).”
GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (2023, neutral): “, 2003), syntactic complexity (Lu, 2011; Crossley & McNamara, 2014; Ortega, 2003), and grammatical complexity (Biber et al.”
Different topics, different discourse: Relationships among writing topic, measures of syntactic complexity, and judgments of writing quality (2015, background): “…L1 and L2 developmental studies focusing on syntactic maturity (e.g., Cooper, 1976; Crossley, McNamara, Weston, & McLain Sullivan, 2011; Hunt, 1965; Lu, 2011; Ravid & Berman, 2010) and discourse analysis of texts in different genres (e.g., Biber, 2006; Biber, Gray, & Poonpon, 2011; Ravid & Berman,…”
The Potential Role(s) of Writing in Second Language Development. (2012, background): “There is also a lack of consensus on measures of syntactic complexity and lexical variety (Lu, 2011; Norris & Ortega, 2009).”
The Development of Second Language Writing Complexity in Groups and Individuals: A Longitudinal Learner Corpus Study (2012, methodology): “…that, on the one hand, although clauses have been used as a unit of analysis in an overwhelmingmajority of complexity studies, they have not been defined consistently,3 which may engender differences in annotation and subsequent results (Bulté & Housen, 2012; Ishikawa, 1995; Lu, 2011; Polio, 2001).”
What Linguistic Features Are Indicative of Writing Quality? A Case of Argumentative Essays in a College Composition Program (2013, background): “Lu (2011) analyzed a corpus of English essays written by first language (L1) Chinese students and found that complexity measures which best discriminated between proficiency levels were the number of complex nominals per clause (e.g., adjective + noun, possessives, prepositional phrases), as well…”
Phrasal complexity in academic writing: A comparison of abstracts written by graduate students and expert writers in applied linguistics (2018, methodology): “Numerous studies have sought to find an objective and reliable metric for successfully gauging learners’ syntactic development in L2 writing (e.g., Larsen-Freeman, 1978, 2009; Lu, 2011; Ortega, 2003; Wolfe-Quintero, Inagaki, & Kim, 1998).”