Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency

Abstract

1. Table of contents 2. Acknowledgements 3. Notes on contributors 4. Complexity, accuracy and fluency: Definitions, measurement and research (by Housen, Alex) 5. Defining and operationalising L2 complexity (by Bulte, Bram) 6. Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency from the perspective of psycholinguistic Second Language Acquisition research (by Towell, Richard J.) 7. Complexity, accuracy and fluency: The role played by formulaic sequences in early interlanguage development (by Myles, Florence) 8. The growth of complexity and accuracy in L2 French: Past observations and recent applications of developmental stages (by Agren, Malin) 9. The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and non-native speakers (by Jong, Nivja de) 10. Syntactic complexity, lexical variation and accuracy as a function of task complexity and proficiency level in L2 writing and speaking (by Kuiken, Folkert) 11. The effects of cognitive task complexity on L2 oral production (by Levkina, Mayya) 12. Complexity, accuracy, fluency and lexis in task-based performance: A synthesis of the Ealing research (by Skehan, Peter) 13. Measuring and perceiving changes in oral complexity, accuracy and fluency: Examining instructed learners' short-term gains (by Tonkyn, Alan Paul) 14. The development of complexity, accuracy and fluency in the written production of L2 French (by Gunnarsson, Cecilia) 15. A longitudinal study of complexity, accuracy and fluency variation in second language development (by Ferraris, Stefania) 16. Epilogue (by Housen, Alex) 17. Index