This study investigates the syntactic complexity, as measured by both large-grained and fine-
grained measures, of 410 narrative writings across four writing proficiency levels written by …

The present study aims to contribute to a fuller understanding of how the L2 production of L2
learners varies over time in terms of syntactic complexity by analyzing a substantive number …

Quantitative corpus research on written language development has expanded rapidly in
recent years, assisted by the ever-increasing power and accessibility of software capable of …

This study examines how syntactic complexity evolves in argumentative L2 writing by
Chinese first-year university students (N= 102). The participants were at either a low-or …

This study investigates the relationship between syntactic complexity and writing quality,
measured by both syntactic elaboration and diversity, based on 410 narrative essays of …

Syntactic complexity is one of the key research foci in writing assessment. This study
combines traditional syntactic complexity (SC) measures with newly-proposed dependency …

Within a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) framework, this longitudinal qualitative
study explored the complex patterns and identified the degree of variability in three learners' …

Self-regulation plays an important role in second language (L2) writing development (Wilby,
2020; Teng & Zhang, 2020). Hence, engagement in self-regulation is of crucial importance …

Learner corpora have generally focused on intermediate and advanced learners/users.
Corpora of beginners are rare but just as important. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) …

One of the challenges for research into Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is to measure
language proficiency in an objective, consistent, and reliable way. Traditionally, the focus of …