The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019)

doi:10.1515/opli-2022-0259

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	The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019)
	Mujtaba, Syed Muhammad 1; Reynolds, Barry Lee2,3 ; Gao, Yang 4; Parkash, Rakesh 5; Ha, Xuan Van 6
	2023-10-31
Source Publication	Open Linguistics
Abstract	This replication study examined the effects of writing prompt type on second language (L2) learners’ writing performance. Fifty undergraduate academic and professional writing course pupils wrote narrative essays about a past event (recalling group/high formulation demand condition) or a future event (imagining group/high conceptualization demand condition). Writers completed a freewriting draft and were then given unlimited opportunities to revise. The writing was subjected to syntactic complexity, fluency, accuracy, and lexical complexity analyses. Writer engagement was computed as the time spent revising drafts. The previous study’s results were confirmed in that the recalling group exhibited more complexity and less accuracy in their writing than the imagining group. The recalling group also exhibited a higher level of writing fluency and possessed a higher level of engagement. Furthermore, the results of our study showed that the imagining group produced writing that was slightly more lexically complex than the recalling group. The pedagogical importance of writing prompts and their potential for affecting writing performance and writing engagement was discussed.
DOI	10.1515/opli-2022-0259
Indexed By	ESCI
Language	英語English
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Document Type	Journal article
Collection	Faculty of Education
Corresponding Author	Reynolds, Barry Lee
Affiliation	1.Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bahria University Karachi Campus, Karachi, Pakistan 2.Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China 3.Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China 4.School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China 5.Department of Business Administration, IQRA University North Campus, Karachi, Pakistan 6.Graduate Research Academy, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia; Department of Foreign Languages, Ha Tinh University, Ha Tinh, Vietnam
Corresponding Author Affilication	Faculty of Education; University of Macau
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Mujtaba, Syed Muhammad,Reynolds, Barry Lee,Gao, Yang,et al. The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019)[J]. Open Linguistics, 2023.
APA	Mujtaba, Syed Muhammad., Reynolds, Barry Lee., Gao, Yang., Parkash, Rakesh., & Ha, Xuan Van (2023). The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019). Open Linguistics.
MLA	Mujtaba, Syed Muhammad,et al."The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019)".Open Linguistics (2023).

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