@inbook{57e445d004fd474fbb31bba009df044c,
title = "A corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students' writing",
abstract = "This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students' writing. We analysed 600 essays from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays using 10 syntactic complexity measures to investigate whether and the extent to which NNS and NS university students' writing differs with respect to length of production unit, amount of subordination, amount of coordination, and degree of phrasal sophistication. Results showed significant differences in all four dimensions of syntactic complexity between the writing of NNS students at both low and high proficiency levels and that of NS students. This gap calls for the design of pedagogical interventions to enhance NNS university students' syntactic development.",
author = "Haiyang Ai and Xiaofei Lu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1075/scl.59.15ai",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Studies in Corpus Linguistics",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "249--264",
editor = "Ana Diaz-Negrillo and Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson",
booktitle = "Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data",
address = "Netherlands",
}