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ITM Web Conf.
Volume 45, 2022
2021 3rd International Conference on Computer Science Communication and Network Security (CSCNS2021)
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| Article Number | 01081 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Computer Technology and System Design | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20224501081 | |
| Published online | 19 May 2022 | |
Corpus-based study on syntactic complexity of texts by L1 and L2 learners
Department of Fundamental Teaching, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai, China
* Corresponding author: zrgen@163.com
Based on 90 argumentative texts from the corpora of LOCNESS and WECCL, the paper attempts to make a study of the syntactic complexity of those texts. All the data are processed online by the Web-based L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyser, and then processed with the corpus tool AntConc and IBM SPSS Statistics 20. The findings include: for one thing, L1 learners use more complex sentences with more verb phrases, and more embedded clauses, in their writings, compared with L2 learners. For another, in writing L2 learners may use dependent clauses with longer size than those by L1 learners despite the L1 learners tend to use sentences embedded with dependent clauses more often. Finally, some pedagogical suggestions are made on how to improve L2 writing course teaching.
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