A dynamic usage based perspective on L2 writing

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-263

  Verspoor, Marjolijn ^a,b   Schmid, Monika S ^a   Xu, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b University of the Free State   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Complexity; Developmental variables; Dynamic; L2 writing; Objective measures; Usage based

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865102940     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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