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Does writing development equal writing quality? A computational investigation of syntactic complexity in L2 learners
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- Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S.
- Venue
- Journal of Second Language Writing
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-12
- Volume
- 26
- Pages
- 66-79
- ISSN
- 1060-3743 (ISSN-L)
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- W1963558974
- Cited by
- 274
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 50.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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