This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

This study, a research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis, contributes to recent L2
writing research on task complexity and its impact on the syntactic complexity, accuracy …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

This study examined narrative and argumentative essays written over the course of a 4‐
month semester by 37 students of English as a second language (ESL). The essays were …

In the present article, we explore the extent to which previous research on register variation
can be used to predict spoken/written task-type variation as well as differences across score …

This study explores the relationship between syntactic complexity and writing quality in
assessed source-based research papers produced by ESL undergraduate writers in a first …

'I applaud the authors for this sizeable undertaking, as well as the care exercised in
selecting and sequencing topics and subtopics. A major strength and salient feature of this …

Formulaic language is at the heart of corpus linguistic research, and learner corpus research
(LCR) is no exception. As multiword units of all kinds (eg, collocations, phrasal verbs …

The goal of this study was to explore the contribution that a dynamic usage based (DUB)
perspective can bring to the establishment of objective measures to assess L2 learners' …

This study addresses research gaps in predicting second language (L2) writing proficiency
using linguistic features. Key to this analysis is the inclusion of linguistic measures at the …