Grammatical complexity: ‘What Does It Mean’ and ‘So What’ for L2 writing classrooms?

Towards an Organic Approach to Investigating CAF in Instructed SLA: The Case of Complexity

John M. Norris, Lourdes Ortega · Applied Linguistics · 2009 · 1.2K citations

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The Influence of Planning and Task Type on Second Language Performance

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Syntactic Complexity Measures and their Relationship to L2 Proficiency: A Research Synthesis of College-level L2 Writing

Lourdes Ortega · Applied Linguistics · 2003 · 991 citations

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Second Language Development in Writing: Measures of Fluency, Accuracy and Complexity

Kathleen M. Broussard, Kate Wolfe-Quintero, Shunji Inagaki et al. · TESOL Quarterly · 2001 · 935 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +17

Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing Development?

Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Kornwipa Poonpon · TESOL Quarterly · 2011 · 768 citations

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