We examined the role of L1 writing on L2 writing performance by repeating the same topic twice through L1 writing first and L2 writing later. We designed what we call a ‘L1 + L2 writing task’ and a ‘L2-only writing task’ respectively. In the L1 + L2 writing task, students wrote a text in their L1, and wrote the same topic in L2, by removing the initial L1 essay. We focused on validating which task conditions (± L1 writing) account for the variation in linguistic performance in EFL high-school students’ writing. Our study was conducted with two intact classes (n = 60) assigned to the L2-only, and students from the other two classes (n = 60) assigned to the L1 + L2. The findings indicate that L1 writing may push students to direct their attentional resources toward effective text construction, thereby mitigating a large number of simultaneous demands on attention. We add to empirical knowledge on the effects of L1 writing in task repetition, by exploring how task repetition affected our students’ L2 writing performance.

This corpus-driven longitudinal study investigates the structural use of lexical bundles in published research article (RA) introductions in applied linguistics written by English experts and Korean graduate students across two different levels of study. Frequency-based bundles were retrieved from a corpus of 200 published RA introductions and two corpora of 46 and 49 introductions of term papers written at two time points of the first and fourth semester of graduate course. In a further step, the structures of the bundles in different rhetorical moves of RA introductions were analyzed to reveal the developmental patterns in bundle use. The analyses show that the Korean graduate students are in the developmental process of academic writing featured by a shift from clausal style to phrasal style as their academic level advances. The results also suggest that the students have difficulty in appropriate bundle use in specific rhetorical moves even at the later academic level of graduate coursework. The pedagogical implications of L2 students’ developmental order are discussed.

본문에서 관찰한 대상은 다음과 같다. 8명의 중국어와 영어의 두 언어 능력이 우수 한 대학생을 대상으로 중국어와 영어로 작문을 시행하여 한자로 문장을 구성하는데 곤 란을 격을 때, 그들은 어떤 종류의 ‘보상 전략’(compensatory strategies)을 사용하여 문장 구성을 하는지를 살펴보았다. 결과적으로 제1언어를 작문하는 중에는 3종의, 제 2언어에서는 8종의 ‘보상 전략’(compensatory strategies)을 사용하였다. 또한 모든 종류의 작문 과정 속에서 작문의 사고구술 프로트콜을 참고하여 기록하였다. 이 과정 에서 중국어를 제2언어로 사용하는 학생들의 전략이 비교적 많았으며, 그들은 알고 있는 한자나 한어 병음, 영문의 병음 표기 등 최대한 상관성 있는 언어 자원을 최대한 모두 활용하는 경향을 보였고, 단어와 두 언어를 결합한 한자 형식을 사용하였다. 후자의 경우 차용 혼성어(loan-blend)나 언어전환(code-switching)등의 상황을 보 였다. 동시에 동일치 않은 수준의 작문 요구 또한 ‘보상 전략’(compensatory strategies)’에 영향을 미치는 요인임을 알 수 있다.