Can Process-based Measures of Fluency and Product-based Measures of Linguistic Complexity Predict L2 Writing Quality?
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This study explores the relationships among L2 learners' writing fluency behaviors, their use of specific linguistic features indicating written complexity, and writing quality. Twenty-nine L1-Korean EFL undergraduate students completed a picture narrative task. The learners' writing fluency behaviors were assessed with the help of keystroke logging software. The linguistic complexity of their writing (i.e., syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and cohesion) was analyzed using automated text analysis tools. The quality of the writing was evaluated by raters based on an analytic rubric. The results from a multiple regression analysis showed that writing quality was best predicted by one fluency measure (i.e., p-burst length), while the writing fluency behavior measures were not related to any measure of linguistic complexity. The findings indicate a link between writing fluency and writing quality, and provide implications regarding the processes and products of L2 writing.
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This study explores the relationships among L2 learners' writing fluency behaviors, their use of specific linguistic features indicating written complexity, and writing quality. Twenty-nine L1-Korean EFL undergraduate students completed a picture narrative task. The learners' writing fluency behaviors were assessed with the help of keystroke logging software. The linguistic complexity of their writing (i.e., syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and cohesion) was analyzed using automated text analysis tools. The quality of the writing was evaluated by raters based on an analytic rubric. The results from a multiple regression analysis showed that writing quality was best predicted by one fluency measure (i.e., p-burst length), while the writing fluency behavior measures were not related to any measure of linguistic complexity. The findings indicate a link between writing fluency and writing quality, and provide implications regarding the processes and products of L2 writing.
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