Syntactic Complexity in L2 Learners' Argumentative Writing: Developmental Stages and the Within-Genre Topic Effect

dc.authorid Saricaoglu, Aysel/0000-0002-5315-018X
dc.authorid Atak, Nesrin/0000-0001-6455-7754
dc.authorscopusid 57220155543
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dc.authorwosid Saricaoglu, Aysel/AAW-1979-2020
dc.contributor.author Atak, Nesrin
dc.contributor.author Saricaoglu, Aysel
dc.contributor.other Department of Modern Languages
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T15:19:27Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T15:19:27Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Atak, Nesrin] Atilim Univ, Dept Modern Languages, Ankara, Turkey; [Saricaoglu, Aysel] Social Sci Univ Ankara, Dept English Language & Literature, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description Saricaoglu, Aysel/0000-0002-5315-018X; Atak, Nesrin/0000-0001-6455-7754 en_US
dc.description.abstract The developmental patterns that learners follow as their language develops in syntactic complexity has gained much attention in L2 writing research recently. This study aims to contribute to the growing body of empirical literature testing the hypothesis that learners move through a set of stages in their use of complex structures for L1 Turkish learners of L2 English (Biber et al., 2011). It also aims to contribute to the limited literature on the within-genre topic effect on syntactic complexity. Complexity developmental stages of 90 intermediate level L1 Turkish learners were examined in their argumentative essays on three different topics (cell phones, online learning, and death penalty). Our findings showed that learners were developmentally in Stage 2 and Stage 3, with frequent use of finite adverbial clauses, attribute adjectives embedded in the noun phrase, and prepositional phrases as adverbials within the clause, which is in line with their proficiency level. Thus, our findings conform to the hypothesized stages of complexity development. Our findings also illustrated a significant effect of the death penalty topic on learners' complexity developmental stages, which is probably due to its greater cognitive demands as a more impersonal topic than the others. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 20
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.asw.2020.100506
dc.identifier.issn 1075-2935
dc.identifier.issn 1873-5916
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85097050721
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2020.100506
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/1948
dc.identifier.volume 47 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000753656000001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Atak, Nesrin
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier Sci Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 33
dc.subject Syntactic complexity en_US
dc.subject Developmental stages en_US
dc.subject Argumentative writing en_US
dc.subject Within-genre topic effect en_US
dc.title Syntactic Complexity in L2 Learners' Argumentative Writing: Developmental Stages and the Within-Genre Topic Effect en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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