Author(s)

Yingxia Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ China West Normal University, Sichuan Nanchong, 637001, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

Task complexity, which is reflected in the cognitive difficulty of writing tasks, is an important factor affecting the quality of writing output, while syntactic complexity, as an important indicator to measure the quality of second language writing, has attracted researchers' attention. Based on the "cognitive hypothesis", this study turns the College Entrance Examination composition genres and topics into task complexity, and explores the impact of tasks with different complexity on the dimensions of learners' syntactic complexity, so as to provide further reference for English writing teaching and learning. 

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Yingxia Huang, A Study on the Influence of Writing Task Complexity on the Syntactic Complexity of Senior High Students' English Writing. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2022) Vol. 5: 17-23. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2022.050604.

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