In 1998, Wolfe-Quintero, Inagaki & Kim published a monograph describing measures used
in assessing writing development. Despite more recent research on linguistic development …

This study examined narrative and argumentative essays written over the course of a 4‐
month semester by 37 students of English as a second language (ESL). The essays were …

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents
the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking …

In contrast to complexity and accuracy, which may pertain to oral and written second
language L2 performance, fluency is first and foremost a measure of spoken language, even …

The number of international students coming to study in Australian universities has
increased exponentially in the past decade, mirroring trends in other English speaking …

This collection brings together the editors' previous research with new work on the Register-
Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account …

Syntactic and linguistic complexity have been studied extensively in applied linguistics as
indicators of linguistic performance, development, and proficiency. Recent publications have …

A recent edited volume by Rosa Manchón (2012) takes a broad view of writing development.
Contributors to the volume examined a variety of features, including vocabulary …

The present paper employs a corpus-based approach to track the longitudinal language
development of university students. Compared to many other longitudinal studies, the …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …