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Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
In a study on L2 proficiency in writing, conducted among 84 Dutch university students of Italian and 75 students of French, manipulation of task complexity led in the complex task to a significant decrease of errors, while at the same time a trend for a lexically more varied text was observed (Kuiken and Vedder 2005, 2007, in press). Based on this…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Performance, Second Language Learning

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