Browsing by Subject "CAF measures"

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    Comparing individual vs. collaborative writing in Spanish EFL secondary education: Insights from CAF measures, propositional complexity, and communicative adequacy
    (IGI GLOBAL, 2023) Vasylets, Olena; Criado, Raquel; Gris Roca, Joaquín; Filología Inglesa
    The aim of this study was to compare the quality of L2 writing performance in collaborative and individual writing conditions. A group of L1 Spanish secondary-school learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)–an under-researched population in L2 writing–were divided into individual (n = 26) and collaborative (n = 34) writing conditions. The 43 texts, written as response to a problem-solving task, were analysed in terms of accuracy, lexical and syntactic complexity, propositional complexity (idea units), fluency and communicative adequacy. In contrast with the previous findings from the literature, results refute the beneficial effects of collaborative writing on accuracy and do not confirm the similarities in syntactic complexity between both writing conditions, given the superiority of the collaborative one. These findings will be explained by drawing from the learning affordances provided by collaborative writing and certain methodological aspects. Future lines of classroom-based research and pedagogical implications will be indicated.
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    Exploring the use of pre-task planning strategies in EFL communicative tasks in higher education: The effect on CAF measures
    (Dykinson, ) Garcés-Manzanera, Aitor; Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura
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    Individual differences and L2 writing: Expanding SLA research
    (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Manchón, Rosa M.; Sanz, Cristina; Filología Inglesa
    This special issue Working memory and L2 writing: Implications for SLA individual differences research seeks not only to expand theory and research on IDs and L2 writing but also to position L2 writing more centrally in SLA debates on IDs in general and WM studies in particular. To this end, the special issue features theoretical reflections on the development of L2 writing IDs research and its connection with global SLA IDs theoretical, methodological, and empirical preoccupations together with a set of novel empirical studies on the role of WM in L2 writing processes and products