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Publication details [#31353]

Sasaki, Miyuki and Keiko Hirose. 1994. Explanatory variables for Japanese students' expository writing in English: An exploratory study. Journal of Second Language Writing 3 (3) : 203–229.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language proficiency | writing, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

1060-3743

Journal WWW

www.jslw.org/

Annotation

This study examines what factors might affect the quality of Japanese students' English second language expository writing. The students' second language proficiency and first language writing ability appear to account for a large proportion of variances in second language composition quality.