Modeling the Effects of Task Repetition in L2 Writing: Examining Inter-and Intra-individual Variability
Phil V. Hiver,
Ali H. Al-Hoorie,
Akira Murakami
Abstract:In this study, we report a longitudinal study of the effects of procedural task repetition on learners' task performance (i.e., syntactic complexity in relation to lexical complexity). We investigated how task repetition results in differences at the group and individual level across each task interval (T = 7). Intermediate-level Saudi learners of English (N = 93) performed a written task biweekly over the course of a whole semester. To control for text type, mode and tenor were fixed at each data elicitation … Show more
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