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Non‐revised writing, revised writing, and error detection by learner characteristics
Author(s) -
Chavez Monika
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/j.1473-4192.1996.tb00094.x
Subject(s) - computer science , german , variety (cybernetics) , subject (documents) , linguistics , natural language processing , foreign language , population , error analysis , test (biology) , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics education , mathematics , philosophy , paleontology , biology , demography , sociology , library science
This paper describes how performance in three different foreign language (German) tasks varies according to certain learner characteristics. The three tasks are: non‐revised (spontaneous) writing, revised writing, and passage‐based error‐detection. The specific variables and their distribution in the subject population are described in later sections. Evaluation criteria are: syntactic accuracy, morphological accuracy, orthographic accuracy, writing speed, and linguistic complexity. The purpose is to provide learner‐specific information on the teaching and testing of intermediate‐level writing tasks in which the primary criteria are to write accurately, quickly, and with syntactic variety.