Assessing Writing Jan 2022

Revisiting the predictive power of traditional vs. fine-grained syntactic complexity indices for L2 writing quality: The case of two genres

Xiaopeng Zhang ; Xiaofei Lu
Journal
Assessing Writing
Published
2022-01-01
DOI
10.1016/j.asw.2021.100597
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