A corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in academic writing of L1 and L2 English students across years and disciplines.

Syntactic complexity, widely acknowledged as a key predictor of writing quality, has gained increasing attention in the realm of academic writing. A notable line of inquiry has centered on the factors that potentially influence syntactic complexity in academic writing. Instead of attending to one fa...

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Main Authors: Chen Shen, Jirong Guo, Penghai Shi, Sheming Qu, Jiwei Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292688