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TY - JOUR
T1 - Complexity, accuracy and fluency in task-based second language research
T2 - toward more developmentally-based measures of second language acquisition
AU - Lambert, Craig
AU - Kormos, Judit
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article surveys how complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) have been operationalized in studies of task-based L2 production, pointing out some problems with this approach and the need for more precise information about L2 development during task performance. Research into developing L1 text construction ability is then discussed and some approaches for establishing measures of the relevant constructs in L2 performance are suggested.
AB - This article surveys how complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) have been operationalized in studies of task-based L2 production, pointing out some problems with this approach and the need for more precise information about L2 development during task performance. Research into developing L1 text construction ability is then discussed and some approaches for establishing measures of the relevant constructs in L2 performance are suggested.
KW - second language acquisition
KW - syntactic complexity
KW - fluency
U2 - 10.1093/applin/amu047
DO - 10.1093/applin/amu047
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 607
EP - 614
JO - Applied Linguistics
JF - Applied Linguistics
SN - 0142-6001
IS - 5
ER -