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Annotated Bibliography Entry for Ortega’s Syntactic complexity measures and their relationship to L2 proficiency: A research synthesis of college‐level L2 writing

Annotated Bibliography Ortega, L. (2003). Syntactic complexity measures and their relationship to L2 proficiency: A research synthesis of college‐level L2 writing. Applied linguistics, 24(4), 492-518. Eva Jin While syntactic complexity is one of the traditional criteria to measure L2 writing … Continue reading →

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Annotated Bibliography Entry for Swain’s The Output Hypothesis

Swain, M. (2000) The output hypothesis and beyond: mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue. In J. P. Lantolf (ed.), Sociocultural theory and second language learning (pp. 97–114). New York: Oxford University Press. As an attempt to broaden many of the postulates … Continue reading →

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