Essays about: "Patrik Rönnkvist"

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  1. 1. Assessing Linguistic Proficiency -The Issue of Syntactic Complexity

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Patrik Rönnkvist; [2021]
    Keywords : Linguistic proficiency; syntactic complexity; national tests; nationella prov; Swedish upper secondary school; L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer;

    Abstract : This study investigates the syntactic complexity of the example texts used as guides forassessment in the national tests of the Swedish upper secondary school courses English 5 andEnglish 6. It is guided by two research questions: (1) Is there a progression of increasedcomplexity between the grades assigned to the example texts, and, if so, is any specificmeasure of syntactic complexity more strongly linked to a higher grade than the rest? (2) Isthere a progression of increased complexity between the two courses, and, if so, how doesthis progression manifest itself? A set of 14 quantitative measures of syntactic complexity asidentified by the L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (L2SCA) are examined to answer thesequestions. READ MORE