Second Language Development in Writing: Measures of Fluency, Accuracy, and Complexity (Technical Report)
β Scribed by Kate Wolfe-Quintero
- Publisher
- National Foreign Language Resource Center
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 98
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In this book, the authors analyze and compare the ways in which fluency, accuracy and grammatical complexity have been measured in studies of language development in second language writing. More than 100 developmental measures are examined, with detailed comparisons of the results across the studies that have used each mea
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