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• Emergence of Complexity, Fluency, and Accuracy in the Oral and Written Production of Five Chinese Learners of English | Applied Linguistics | Oxford Academic

  Larsen-Freeman, Diane. (2006). The emergence of complexity, fluency, and accuracy in the oral and written production of five Chinese learners of English. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 590–619. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/aml029

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  • These indices have been determined to be best measures of second language development in writing (see, for example, Larsen-Freeman and Strom 1977; Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998).
    • DATA ANALYSES: Quantitative, ¶1
  • from the vantage point of a complex systems approach, improved performance is not merely a question of a learner's enhanced access to his or her steady-state competence. A learner/user's language resources (competence, if you must) change synchronously with their use.
    • Discussion, ¶3
  • One of the tenets of this approach is that it is at the bifurcations or discontinuities, when the process is relatively unstable or chaotic, that the organism is free to explore new behaviors in response to task demands
    • Discussion, ¶4
  • We need to look at the ‘messy little details’ that make up the ‘here and now’ of real time. We need to take into account learners’ goals and intentions. We need to consider the tasks that we ask them to perform and to consider each performance anew—stable and predictable in part, but at the same time, variable, flexible, and dynamically adapted to fit the situation
    • Conclusion, ¶2

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