Publications

Publication details [#31335]

Wen, Qiufang and Wenyu Wang. 2002. L1 use in the L2 composing process: An exploratory study of 16 Chinese EFL writers. Journal of Second Language Writing 11 (3) : 225–246.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language proficiency | task-dependency of processing | writing, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

1060-3743

Journal WWW

www.jslw.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses the results of a study on how Chinese English second language writers use their first language when composing in their second language and how this use is affected by second language proficiency and writing tasks.