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Direct linkKyle, Kristopher; Crossley, Scott; Verspoor, Marjolijn – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Measures of syntactic complexity such as mean length of T-unit have been common measures of language proficiency in studies of second language acquisition. Despite the ubiquity and usefulness of such structure-based measures, they could be complemented with measures based on usage-based theories, which focus on the development of not just…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Processes, Syntax, Difficulty Level
