The effects of genre on the syntactic complexity of argumentative and expository writing by Chinese EFL learners

Genre researchers have found that writing in different genres involves different cognitive task loads and requires different linguistic demands. Generally speaking, narratives involve the description of events with a focus on people and their actions within a specific time frame, whereas non-narrati...

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Main Authors: Liping Pu, Renquan Heng, Cong Cao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1047117/full