The Effect of Choice of Prompts on Syntactic Complexity, Grammatical Accuracy, and Lexical Diversity in L۲ Argumentative Writing Essays

  • سال انتشار: 1400
  • محل انتشار: مطالعات زبان کاربردی ایران، دوره: 13، شماره: 2
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_IJALS-13-2_012
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 289
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نویسندگان

Rajab Esfandiari

Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Nilofar Sadeghian

Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran,

چکیده

Previous research has shown the differential effects of task-related prompts on syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and lexical diversity when L۲ learners use writing prompts to produce a piece of writing. However, the extent to which the freedom in the selection of prompts affects these linguistic facets in L۲ argumentative essays is still unknown. The present study, therefore, was designed to investigate differences between syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and lexical diversity in argumentative essays. Seventy-one upper-intermediate male and female Iranian English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners from Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin and Safir Plus institute in Tehran participated in this study. Five-paragraph essays were used to collect data, and SPSS (version ۲۵) was used to analyze the data. Results of multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed statistically significant differences between syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and lexical diversity. Results from post-hoc analyses revealed statistically significant differences between lexical diversity and grammatical accuracy as well as lexical diversity and syntactic complexity, but no statistically significant differences were found between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity in argumentative essays.

کلیدواژه ها

Argumentative Writing, grammatical accuracy, lexical diversity, syntactic complexity

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