This study examined the effects of cognitive task complexity increase on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as well as the temporal distribution of the cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in computer-mediated L2 written production. To this end, the study employed a between-subjects experimental design with 85 EFL learners from a language learning institute in Iran. Participa...

The  present  meta-analysis  was  conducted  to  provide  a  quantitative  measure  of  the overall effects of task complexity on Chinese EFL learners’ language  production.  Based  on  the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary  studies  were synthesized according to key  features.  Eleven of them  were  meta-analyzed  to  investigate  effects  of  raising  the  resource-directing  task  comple...

Language alterations in Huntington's disease (HD) are reported, but their nature and correlation with other cognitive impairments are still under investigation. This study aimed to characterize the language disturbances in HD and to correlate them to motor and cognitive aspects of the disease. We studied 23 HD patients and 23 controls, matched for age and schooling, using the Boston Diagnostic ...

Abstract Until children can produce letters quickly and accurately, it is assumed that handwriting disrupts limits the quality of their text. This investigation largest study to date (2596 girls, 2354 boys) assessing association between fluency writing quality. We tested whether made a statistically unique contribution predicting primary grade students’ on functional task, after variance due at...

Abstract Learners’ metacognitive competencies play a vital role in affecting their learning outcomes, especially for language learners who need to write English as foreign (EFL). Much research has widely explored writers’ knowledge and strategies EFL contexts, yet the of experiences writing is underexplored. To fill this gap, we conducted study investigate effects student-writers’ on performanc...

Most texts on writing style encourage authors to avoid overly-complex words. However, a majority of undergraduates admit to deliberately increasing the complexity of their vocabulary so as to give the impression of intelligence. This paper explores the extent to which this strategy is effective. Experiments 1–3 manipulate complexity of texts and find a negative relationship between complexity a...

In the present study, two different models of task complexity; namely, limited attentional capacity model and cognition hypothesis were examined. To this end, the manipulation of cognitive task complexity along +/- single task dimension on Iranian EFL learners’ production in terms of fluency was explored. Based on the results of the writing test of TOFEL (2004), 48 learners were selected as the...

We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate reading-writing relations. Beyond the overall relation, we systematically investigated moderation of relation as function linguistic grain size (word reading and spelling versus comprehension written composition), measurement (e.g., multiple choice, open-ended, cloze), composition writing quality, productivity, fluency, syntax), developmental phase (g...