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Peer reviewedChastain, Kenneth – Modern Language Journal, 1990
Comparison of college students' (N=14) graded and ungraded Spanish compositions revealed that, when they anticipated receiving a grade, students wrote longer compositions with more complex sentences. However, the type and number of errors varied among students. (CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Grading
