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Defining and Operationalising L2 Complexity
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Bulte, Bram; Housen, Alex – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
This chapter takes a critical look at complexity in L2 research. We demonstrate several problems in the L2 literature in terms of how complexity has been defined and operationalised as a construct. In the first part of the chapter we try to unravel its highly complex, multidimensional nature by presenting a taxonomic model that identifies major…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Construct Validity, Classification