Abstract
This paper examines and compares the level of syntactic complexity of English Writing of Korean high school learners and college learners. For this study, 145 writing samples were gathered. Through the L2 syntactic complexity analyzer program, L2SCA, fourteen sub-measures in five categories were analyzed. The study found that college learners’ writing showed higher syntactic complexity in the length of production unit and coordination. All the indices of length of production unit and part of coordination, Coordinate Phrases per Clause, Coordinate Phrases per T-unit showed that college learners are more proficient than high school learners. Although college learners’ proficiency level was higher than high school learners’, college learners’ writing proficiency seems not to be an advanced level considering previous researches, which show the more syntactic complexity using noun phrases and verb phrases in advanced learner’s writing. The finding offers some pedagogical implications for teaching L2 writing in class.
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