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Publication details [#46183]
Kuiken, Folkert and Ineke Vedder. 2007. Task complexity and measures of linguistic performance in L2 writing. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 45 (3) : 261–284.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Annotation
The findings of a study on French and Italian second language proficiency in writing, conducted among Dutch university students, demonstrate that the impact of task complexity is mainly related to the lower lexical error ratios in the more complex tasks, whilst mixed results were found as to the usage of frequent versus infrequent words.