콘텐츠 본문
논문 국내 국내전문학술지(KCI급) The Relationship between English Proficiency and Syntactic Complexity for Korean College Students
- 학술지 구분 국내전문학술지(KCI급)
- 게재년월 2023-09
- 저자명 Lee, Y.-J.
- 학술지명 The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
- 발행국가 국내
- 논문언어 한국어
논문 초록 (Abstract)
This study investigates the relationship between syntactic complexity indices and scores on language use in Jacobs et al.(1981)’ analytic rating scale. Syntactic complexity indices obtained from TAASSC program and 440 essays written by EFL students from the ICNALE corpus were analyzed. Specifically, this study explores the relationship between scores on language use and Lu(2011)’s traditional syntactic complexity indices, phrasal complexity indices, and clausal complexity indices, respectively. Results of the stepwise regression analysis showed that phrasal complexity indices turned out to be the best predictor of scores on language use, although the variance in scores on language use was relatively small, compared with the previous study. Implications of the findings of the current study for writing instruction (i.e., syntactic structures at the phrase level) were also discussed.
