Cognitive task complexity and written output in Italian and French as a foreign language

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-60

  Kuiken, Folkert ^a   Vedder, Ineke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Attention; Cognition Hypothesis; Cognitive task complexity; Lexical variation; Limited Attentional Capacity Model; Multiple Attentional Resources Model; Proficiency level; Syntactic complexity; Writing performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149101482     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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