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

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/scl.104" target="_blank" >10.1075/scl.104</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů