Assessing the validity of syntactic alternations as criterial features of proficiency in L2 writings in English
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F26%3ACULYJVYR" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/26:CULYJVYR - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100238" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100238</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100238" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.rmal.2025.100238</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessing the validity of syntactic alternations as criterial features of proficiency in L2 writings in English
Original language description
This article addresses Second Language (L2) writing development through an investigation of alternation-based metrics. We explore the paradigmatic production in learner English by linking language functions to specific grammatical paradigms. Using the EFCAMDAT as a gold standard and a corpus of French learners as an external test set, we employ a supervised learning framework to operationalize and evaluate seven alternations. We show that learner levels are associated with these seven alternations. Using ordinal regression Modeling for evaluation, the results show that all syntactic alternations are significant but yield a low impact if taken individually. However, their influence is shown to be impactful if taken as a group. These alternations and their measurement method suggest that it is possible to use them as part of broader-purpose Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems focused on proficiency assessment. © 2025
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
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)
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
ISSN
2772-7661
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Volume of the periodical
4
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
100238
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105012389097