Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important role in language education;
however, the trends, research issues, and applications of AI in language learning remain …

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 …

The widespread adoption of ChatGPT, an AI language model, has the potential to bring
about significant changes to the research, teaching, and learning of foreign languages. The …

Background Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics
have facilitated major improvements on traditional readability formulas that aim at predicting …

With a premium placed on academic writing in the US secondary education context,
adolescent L2 students are expected to develop advanced skills to analyze, interpret, and …

This study examined the longitudinal development of syntactic complexity with a large-scale
corpus of EFL (English as a foreign language) compositions written by the same group of …

Several studies have explored complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as an index of
language development, as an index of language performance, and as an index of writing …

There have been increasing calls for research attention to the linguistic realizations of
rhetorical functions in academic writing. Research in this area has so far focused primarily …

Measures of syntactic complexity such as mean length of T-unit have been common
measures of language proficiency in studies of second language acquisition. Despite the …

This study adopts a bibliometric approach to investigate a) impacts of scholars and
publications and b) major research trends in L2 writing research between 2000 and 2020 …