Profiling L2 writing development: The case of CFL learners in intermediate classes

Chinese as a Second Language Research Pub Date : 2018-10-09 DOI:10.1515/caslar-2018-0009

Li Yang, Zenan Zhao

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Abstract This exploratory study examined the writings of a small group of learners enrolled in intermediate CFL classes at two U.S. universities and attempted to profile these learners’ writing development over five months. It collected data through both in-class timed essays and out-of-class writing assignments and analyzed them in terms of overall rating and a variety of writing measures (i.e., fluency, accuracy, complexity, content, and organization). The results showed negligible improvement in these learners’ overall writing proficiency at the end of the observation period and revealed a non-linear trend of development of their writing competence over time. In addition, the analysis of the learners’ writing profile as well as the errors committed in their writings provided new insights into the promotion of L2 writing skills in CFL classrooms.

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剖析二语写作的发展——以中级班英语学习者为例

摘要这项探索性研究调查了美国两所大学CFL中级班的一小群学生的写作，并试图描述这些学生在五个月内的写作发展情况。它通过课堂定时作文和课外写作作业收集数据，并从总体评分和各种写作指标（即流利性、准确性、复杂性、内容和组织性）方面对其进行分析。结果显示，在观察期结束时，这些学习者的整体写作能力提高微不足道，并且随着时间的推移，他们的写作能力发展呈非线性趋势。此外，对学习者的写作概况以及他们在写作中犯下的错误的分析为在CFL课堂上提高二语写作技能提供了新的见解。

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Chinese as a Second Language Research Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR) focuses on research on the acquisition, development, and use of Chinese as a Second Language. It supports scholars and researchers from different linguistic fields, and serves as a forum to discuss, investigate, and better understand Chinese as a Second Language. Each issue (2 per year) of the journal publishes three papers in Chinese and three papers in English; summaries are always provided both in Chinese and English. We are especially interested in publishing articles and research papers that investigate how empirical findings of CSL research can advance and develop better Chinese language teaching methodologies, explore the implications of CSL research for theoretical developments and practical applications, focus on the acquisition and use of varieties of CSL, study the nature of interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of Chinese, address major issues of second language acquisition from the perspective of CSL, analyze the ways in which language is both shaped by culture and is the medium through which culture is created.

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