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 …

Linguistic performance elicited by language tasks has generally been operationalized in
terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). However, this study argues that …

The language of evaluation in academic writing has been increasingly studied. However,
little is known about how students learn to make evaluative meanings. This article reports on …

In queste pagine viene presentata una sperimentazione educativa realizzata nell'AS
2016/2017 all'interno del progetto di formazione e ricerca-azione “Osservare l'interlingua” …

This article reports on the results of an action-research project in Italian primary schools. Its
main principles are formative evaluation, a process orientation to writing, cooperative …

This paper presents the results of a study conducted on written narratives produced by two
fifth-grade primary school classes involved in the project Observing the Interlanguage. The …

Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency (CAF) have been identified as three important
dimensions for the description of second language performance. They have been typically …

This study explores the effectiveness of ChatGPT as a tool for evaluating linguistic accuracy
in second language (L2) writing, situated within the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) …

This study investigates lexical and grammatical features of the high-frequency verb “make”
in English written essays among Asian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners based …

This paper aims to investigate how L2 teachers perceive syntactic complexity in L2 writing,
and to what extent teachers' judgements are related to current theoretical views. The main …