Variability in Second Language Development From a Dynamic Systems Perspective

By Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Wander Lowie, M. Dijk. 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Variability and Variation in Second Language Acquisition Orders: A Dynamic Reevaluation (2015, background): “Variability has a long history in SLA studies but, as Verspoor, Lowie, and van Dijk (2008) point out, many studies were concerned with explaining variability in interlanguage, which was assumed to be rather systematic.”
Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning: Change, Stability, and Context. (2014, background): “Thus, as explained by Verspoor et al. (2008), the learner and the environment are not independent of one another but rather influence and change each other, leading to systemic variability in development.”
Defining and operationalising L2 complexity (2012, background): “growth across the full range of L2 development (R. Ellis & Barkhuizen 2005; Norris & Ortega 2009; Ortega 2003; Verspoor et al. 2008; Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998).”
Conceptualizing and measuring short-term changes in L2 writing complexity (2014, background): “To this end, more longitudinal complexity studies are needed – over larger periods of time, and in which difference and variation occupy a central role – as well as a broader conceptual framework, such as that offered by dynamic or complex systems theory (Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008; Verspoor et ”
The Development of Second Language Writing Complexity in Groups and Individuals: A Longitudinal Learner Corpus Study (2012, methodology): “Verspoor et al. (2008) and Spoelman and Verspoor (2010) explored the dynamic interaction of different writing complexity variables in longitudinal case studies.”
The Relationship Between Use of Writing Strategies and English Proficiency in Singapore Primary Schools (2014, background): “They may reflect the variable nature of L2 development in general (Verspoor et al. 2008) and writing strategy use in young writers in particular.”
The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study (2017, background): “Consequently, a key to this theoretical approach is which subsystems have meaningful relationships (Verspoor et al. 2008).”
A Dynamic System Approach to Willingness to Communicate: Developing an Idiodynamic Method to Capture Rapidly Changing Affect (2011, background): “Verspoor et al. (2008) presented a series of powerful analytic procedures for describing the graphical patterns that would allow for interesting comparisons of multiple intra-individual factors assessed on the same timescale, such as between conversational partners.”