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Grammatical Complexity as Mediated by Proficiency and Working Memory in L2 Oral Production: Measuring Syntactic Complexity versus Grammatical Variety

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dc.contributor Gilabert Guerrero, Roger
dc.contributor Celaya Villanueva, Ma. Luz (María Luz), 1962-
dc.creator Cáceres, Xaidé
dc.date 2016-02-19T09:34:43Z
dc.date 2016-02-19T09:34:43Z
dc.date 2014-07
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:21:52Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:21:52Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/69625
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/13413
dc.description Màster de Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2014, Turors: Roger Gilabert i María Luz Celaya.
dc.description The purpose of the study reported in the present article is to explore whether differences in second language proficiency and working memory capacity affect the grammatical complexity of second language oral performance. Data from a film retelling task were used to analyze the oral grammatical complexity of a group of 91 L1 Catalan/Spanish learners of L2 English from the GRAL group corpus. Syntactic complexity and grammatical variety measures were employed for the analysis. In order to account for text length differences in the narratives, the square root of the denominator was used rather than the denominator itself. Results suggest that, when using this operationalization, both syntactic complexity and grammatical variety measures end up being positively correlated with L2 proficiency. On the other hand, no relationship was found between any of the employed measures and working memory capacity. The results are discussed in the light of previous research on the relationship between second language grammatical complexity and both proficiency and working memory capacity.
dc.format 56 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Cáceres, 2014
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Màster Oficial - Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües
dc.subject Llengua i ensenyament
dc.subject Multilingüisme
dc.subject Adquisició d'una segona llengua
dc.subject Treballs de fi de màster
dc.subject Language and education
dc.subject Multilingualism
dc.subject Second language acquisition
dc.subject Master's theses
dc.title Grammatical Complexity as Mediated by Proficiency and Working Memory in L2 Oral Production: Measuring Syntactic Complexity versus Grammatical Variety
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis


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