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Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing: A corpus-based study

Ch. 10. P. 241–272.
Lyashevskaya O., Olga Vinogradova, Scherbakova A.

This chapter explores the association between syntactic complexity and syntactic accuracy in essays written by Russian learners of English in reply to two examination task types: a description of graphical material (Task 1) and an opinion essay (Task 2). A Poisson regression model served to predict the number of syntactic errors. Two syntactic complexity parameters were statistically significant in predicting syntactic accuracy in both tasks: the numbers of sentences and adverbial clauses. Three more parameters predicted the accuracy in Task 1 only: maximum depth of syntactic trees, and the numbers of adjective + noun and noun + infinitive constructions. Six parameters were related to syntactic accuracy in Task 2: the numbers of all clauses, of tokens and of T- units; the average length of sentence; and the numbers of coordinated and of participle + noun constructions.

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Keywords: языковые ошибкиaccuracyоценка письменной работыанглийский как иностранныйassessing writing skillssyntactic complexityсинтаксическая сложностьEFL/ESL writing

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