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Human Ratings of Writing Quality Capture Features of Syntactic Variety and Transformation in Chinese EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Traditionally, writing quality is measured by human ratings, either holistically or analytically. The present study aimed to investigate the locus of human ratings by analyzing the linguistic features that are predictive of writing quality. One hundred and 44 argumentative writing samples from Chinese learners of English as a foreign language were evaluated by human ratings and quantitative measurement of writing quality indexed by Coh-Metrix. Holistic and analytic human ratings had significant correlations with quantitative measures related to syntactic variety and transformation. Moreover, linear and logistic regressions revealed that syntactic simplicity, words before main verb, syntactic structure similarity in all sentences and across paragraphs, incidence of passive voice and temporal connectives were five valid indices that can consistently differentiate writing quality indexed by human ratings. The present findings have significant pedagogical implications for human ratings on writing quality in the foreign language learning context.
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Psychology
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638084/ https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660796
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The temporal dynamics of first and second language processing: ERPs to spoken words in Mandarin-English bilinguals
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In: Neuropsychologia (2020)
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The temporal dynamics of first and second language processing: ERPs to spoken words in Mandarin-English bilinguals
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In: Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications (2020)
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Age of Acquisition Effects on Word Processing for Chinese Native Learners’ English: ERP Evidence for the Arbitrary Mapping Hypothesis
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Chinese–English bilinguals processing temporal–spatial metaphor
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An ERP study on Chinese natives' second language syntactic grammaticalization
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