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Syntactic complexity in college-level English writing: Differences among writers with diverse L1 backgrounds
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lu, X., & Ai, H.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Cincinnati (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lu, Xiaofei
- Venue
- Journal of Second Language Writing
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-09
- Volume
- 29
- Pages
- 16-27
- ISSN
- 1060-3743 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W794495026
- Cited by
- 350
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 40 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 5
- FWCI
- 28.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Second Language Writing (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- syntactic complexity, L1 background, EFL learners, argumentative essay, second language writing
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