Zhan Wang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zhan Wang plays a role.

Articles

Wang, Zhan and Gaowei Chen 2018 Chapter 4. Discourse performance in L2 task repetitionLearning Language through Task Repetition, Bygate, Martin (ed.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter
‘Repetition’ in language practice has often been associated with behavioristic drills, typically regarded as giving rise to habit formation, and often excluded from mainstream language teaching approaches. However, this study, drawing upon Bygate’s (1999) argument that task is a context for the… read more
This chapter is concerned with an investigation of the underlying mechanisms of second language speaking. It reports on an experiment containing five different types of planning and repetition conditions, each relevant to certain processes and stages of speech production. The five conditions were… read more
Wang, Zhan and Peter Skehan 2014 Chapter 6. Structure, lexis, and time perspective: Influences on task performanceProcessing Perspectives on Task Performance, Skehan, Peter (ed.), pp. 155–186 | Article
The Cognition and Tradeoff Hypotheses account for task performance in different ways. The former sees task complexity as the driver for higher accuracy and structural complexity whereas the latter, within the constraints of limited attentional capacities, sees performance as being accounted for… read more