THE EFFECTS OF PLANNING ON FLUENCY, COMPLEXITY, AND ACCURACY IN SECOND LANGUAGE NARRATIVE WRITING
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More advanced and diverse language allows encoding more complex ideas, which generates higher cognitive load.
“In general, more advanced and diverse language allows to encode more complex ideas (Ellis & Yuan, 2004), which generates a higher cognitive load (Swabey et al., 2016).”
From The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of cognitive effort and appeal to emotions (2022) · cites this paper as Ellis & Yuan, 2004
Improving media literacy to process more complex ideas will likely reduce the cognitive load associated with factual information and therefore the prevalence of misinformation.
“improving media literacy to process more complex ideas will likely reduce the cognitive load associated with factual information (Ellis & Yuan, 2004;Swabey et al., 2016) and, therefore, the prevalence of misinformation.”
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- Authors
- Ellis, R., & Yuan, F.
- Venue
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 59-84
- ISSN
- 0272-2631 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1545
- OpenAlex
- W4252419718
- Cited by
- 453
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 12.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Writing and Handwriting Education
- Keywords
- planning, fluency, complexity, accuracy, second language writing, narrative writing, writing process
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