Second language Chinese computer-based writing by learners with alphabetic first languages: writing behaviors, second language proficiency, genre, and text quality
Second language Chinese computer-based writing by learners with alphabetic first languages: writing behaviors, second language proficiency, genre, and text quality
This study examined the relationship of L2 Chinese proficiency with writing behaviors in L2 Chinese and whether this relationship is mediated by genre. It additionally investigated how writing behaviors relate to L2 Chinese text quality. A sample of 32 L2 writers of Chinese performed two argumentative and two narrative tasks on a computer. Their keystrokes were logged. Participants’ L2 Chinese proficiency was estimated by a cloze test. Writing behaviors were operationalized as online measures of fluency, pausing, and revision. Text quality was assessed via holistic rating. Regression analyses revealed positive relationships of L2 proficiency to fluency, between-word pause duration, between-clause and between-sentence pause frequency, and below-clause revision frequency. L2 proficiency was also found to negatively correlate with within-word and between-word pause frequency and between-sentence pause duration. Genre did not modulate the relationship of L2 proficiency to writing behaviors. More highly rated L2 Chinese texts were associated with fewer between-word pauses.
Chinese as a second language writing, genre; text quality, second language proficiency, writing behavior
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Lu, Xiaojun
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9 March 2022
Lu, Xiaojun
3dd4bfc3-5486-454c-92f3-bc4575b068dc
Lu, Xiaojun
(2022)
Second language Chinese computer-based writing by learners with alphabetic first languages: writing behaviors, second language proficiency, genre, and text quality.
Language Learning, 72 (1), .
(doi:10.1111/lang.12469).
Abstract
This study examined the relationship of L2 Chinese proficiency with writing behaviors in L2 Chinese and whether this relationship is mediated by genre. It additionally investigated how writing behaviors relate to L2 Chinese text quality. A sample of 32 L2 writers of Chinese performed two argumentative and two narrative tasks on a computer. Their keystrokes were logged. Participants’ L2 Chinese proficiency was estimated by a cloze test. Writing behaviors were operationalized as online measures of fluency, pausing, and revision. Text quality was assessed via holistic rating. Regression analyses revealed positive relationships of L2 proficiency to fluency, between-word pause duration, between-clause and between-sentence pause frequency, and below-clause revision frequency. L2 proficiency was also found to negatively correlate with within-word and between-word pause frequency and between-sentence pause duration. Genre did not modulate the relationship of L2 proficiency to writing behaviors. More highly rated L2 Chinese texts were associated with fewer between-word pauses.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 June 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 September 2021
Published date: 9 March 2022
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This study was funded by a joint doctoral scholarship awarded to the author by University College London, Institute of Education and the China Scholarship Council, No. 201606530021. I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and Associate Editor Professor Judit Kormos for providing their constructive comments to drafts of this paper. My heartfelt thanks also go to Professor Andrea Révész for her comments on earlier versions of this work. Language Learning
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© 2021 Language Learning Research Club, University of Michigan
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Chinese as a second language writing, genre; text quality, second language proficiency, writing behavior
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