The effects of task complexity on Korean adult EFL learners’ summary writing
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Among the three task dimensions Robinson (2001a) proposed as the standards for task classification in his Cognition Hypothesis, task complexity was proposed to affect language learning most directly; the more complex the content of the task is in terms of its cognitive load, the more complex and accurate language form the task performer or second language learner produces as required by the task. The present study operationalized task complexity into two levels via the two types of text to summarize, argumentative and expository, in the assumption that the former has more complex content such as reasoning than the latter. Fifty Korean adult learners wrote six summaries of the six different texts from each type of texts which have the same readability, with and without the restriction of summary length. Statistical results from analysis of variance were partly in support of the effect of task complexity; syntactic complexity was significantly affected by text type as predicted only in the last summaries. Lexical complexity and accuracy were not.
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Among the three task dimensions Robinson (2001a) proposed as the standards for task classification in his Cognition Hypothesis, task complexity was proposed to affect language learning most directly; the more complex the content of the task is in terms of its cognitive load, the more complex and accurate language form the task performer or second language learner produces as required by the task. The present study operationalized task complexity into two levels via the two types of text to summarize, argumentative and expository, in the assumption that the former has more complex content such as reasoning than the latter. Fifty Korean adult learners wrote six summaries of the six different texts from each type of texts which have the same readability, with and without the restriction of summary length. Statistical results from analysis of variance were partly in support of the effect of task complexity; syntactic complexity was significantly affected by text type as predicted only in the last summaries. Lexical complexity and accuracy were not.
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