Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the use of automated writing
evaluation (AWE) in second language writing classrooms. This increase is partially due to …

This study aims to ascertain the nature and extent of the development of English L2 writing
proficiency of 45 adult ESL learners over the time of an intensive short-term academic …

In this article, we examine current practices in the measurement of syntactic complexity to
illustrate the need for more organic and sustainable practices in the measurement of …

This special issue addresses a general question that is at the heart of much research in
applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA): what makes a second or foreign …

Second Language Page 1 Second Language Writing Research insights for the classroom
Edited by Barbara Kroll California State University, Northridge 33 UNIVERSITY PREss Page 2 …

The goal of this study was to explore the contribution that a dynamic usage based (DUB)
perspective can bring to the establishment of objective measures to assess L2 learners' …

This article examines whether there is any difference between the effect of oral and written
corrective feedback (CF) on learners' accurate use of English articles. To this end, the …

This study addresses research gaps in predicting second language (L2) writing proficiency
using linguistic features. Key to this analysis is the inclusion of linguistic measures at the …

The controversies surrounding written error correction can be traced to Truscott (1996) in his
polemic against written error correction. He claimed that empirical studies showed that error …