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TODE Tomoko
Department Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2019/03 |
| Type | Articles |
| Peer Review | With peer review |
| Title | Measuring syntactic complexity of beginner-level EFL learners |
| Contribution Type | Co-Authored Publication |
| Journal | Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | The Japan Society of English Language Education |
| Volume, Issue, Pages | 30,pp.49-64 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Author and coauthor | ◎Tomoko Tode and Kyoko Otsuki |
| Details | From the perspective of cognition mode of cognitive linguistics, the current study investigated whether defining clausal complexity through verb arguments works to gauge syntactic development of beginner-level Japanese learners of English. The results suggest that the verb-argument index is a sensitive measure of early syntactic development. |