Development of EFL Students' Writing in Secondary Education

• 作者: Alberto Isusi Alabarte Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martinez
• 来源期刊: 语言与教育研究(英文)
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: L2 writing DEVELOPMENT Accuracy FLUENCY GRAMMATICAL COMPLEXITY LEXICAL COMPLEXITY Secondary education
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-13
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

The aim of this paper is to explore and measure language learners'performance in L2 writing production using the complexity,accuracy,and fluency constructs.A total of 123 secondary education students took part in the study.Results are manifold.In the first place,they show that the measures of fluency,accuracy,grammatical and lexical complexity progress in a significant way:fourth grade students outperform first graders in the aforementioned measures.Secondly,fewer correlations between the writing measures used and the general quality of the compositions are found among the older students than among the younger ones,indicating that the correlations change depending on learners'age.Thirdly,1st year students exhibit a higher ratio of errors,both in general and also by error category,although only two types decrease significantly in 4th year students:syntactic and spelling errors.Lastly,we find that errors tend to develop in a non-linear way.