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Andrew Schenck – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2024
Form-Focused Instruction (FFI) has been extensively studied, yet past experimental results are often inconsistent or even contradictory. Overly simplistic examinations of grammatical complexity and learner characteristics (e.g., L2 English proficiency) may have fueled the confusion, limiting understanding of how different FFI techniques can be…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jagaiah, Thilagha; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Kearns, Devin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Syntactic complexity has been recognized as an important construct in writing research, and for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined in numerous studies. This systematic review is the first study of its kind to synthesize 36 studies spanning from 1970 to 2019 by identifying and cataloging all SCMs…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Writing Evaluation, Literary Genres