Linguistic Complexity in Academic Writing: Comparing Tasks in L2 English

Three different types of academic texts written by advanced learners of English were analysed to discover whether they differed from each other in terms of syntactic and lexical complexity. The writing tasks differed in formality and personal involvement. The results were in accordance with earlier...

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Main Author: Päivi Pietilä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2017-12-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/5851