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This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of various syntactic complexity measures as indicators of language development in ESL writers.

A Corpus‐Based Evaluation of Syntactic Complexity Measures as Indices of College‐Level ESL Writers' Language Development

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Corpus-based evaluation identifies effective syntactic complexity measures for college-level ESL writers, suggesting improved assessment methods.

This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of various syntactic complexity measures as indicators of language development in ESL writers.
Corpus-based analysis of ESL writing data from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners
14 syntactic complexity measures were assessed using a computational system for automated measurement
Investigated sampling condition effects on the relationship between syntactic complexity and language development.
Certain syntactic complexity measures significantly differentiate between developmental levels in ESL writing
Identified between-level differences that reach statistical significance
Examined relationships among different measures, noting strength and patterns of development.

Xiaofei Lu (2011) studied this question.

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Corpus-based evaluation identifies effective syntactic complexity measures for college-level ESL writers, suggesting improved assessment methods.