This study explored how task complexity, writing behaviors (i.e., pausing and revision behaviors), and writing performance (i.e., task completion, coherence and cohesion, language use, and expression and tone) influence and relate to each other. Thirty advanced-level Korean EFL undergraduates completed writing tasks differing in complexity. A combination of keystroke logging and stimulated recall interview was employed. It was found that the simple task group showed a greater number of pauses and revisions related to lower-order writing processes, whereas the complex task group showed longer pauses related to higher-order writing processes. While task complexity had no influence on writing performance, writing behaviors revealed significant relationships with text quality. In the simple task group, pause length and revision were negatively related to writing scores, whereas pause frequency revealed mixed results. In the complex task group, consistent negative relations were found between pausing behaviors and text quality, and fewer revisions were related to better scores in expression and tone.

This study reports the results of an open-ended questionnaire on the experiences of Korean university students who worked on task-based L2 bimodal collaborative writing enhanced by technology. Thirty-six English major students developed a reading text for 2nd-grade middle school students. Using Microsoft TEAMS as the main platform, participants conducted the collaborative writing task using real-time video conferencing, chatting, commenting, file and image posting, and (a)synchronous feedback/revision functions. Participants 1) used multiple tools to maximize their functions, 2) interacted collaboratively in every writing stage to achieve success, and 3) evaluated the quality of collaborative writing more highly than individual writing and perceived the positive impacts of collaborative writing on L2 writing in audience awareness, paraphrasing technique, and linguistic expressions. The levels of visual editing skills and awareness of online image copyright among students varied.

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 study was conducted to investigate the effects of the sentence-writing task on English vocabulary learning of Korean high school students. The effectiveness of the sentence-writing task can be explained based on the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001); yet, there has been no consistency in the results of the previous studies on this hypothesis. In the present study, the effects of the sentence-writing task on vocabulary learning were re-examined in comparison with the gap-filling task. In addition, considering that there have been no studies addressing the effects of autobiographical elaboration (relating the meaning of a certain word to one’s own experience) on memory, the effects of the autobiographical sentence-writing task were compared to those of the imaginary sentence-writing task. Forty high proficiency and 40 low proficiency learners were randomly assigned either of the sentence-writing or the gap-filling task. The results demonstrated that the sentence-writing task is more effective in vocabulary learning than the gap-filling task, regardless of the learners’ proficiency levels. However, no significant difference was found between the effects of the autobiographical sentence-writing task and the imaginary sentence-writing task. Based on the results, the pedagogical implications were discussed in the conclusion chapter.

We explored whether task complexity, operationalized by the two types of writing prompts, affects EFL high school students’ narrative writing in terms of syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, fluency, cohesion, and text quality. 32 intermediate EFL students who were randomly assigned to two prompt groups completed a written narrative task based on a series of sixteen pictures. Task complexity was operationalized as a bare versus frame prompt. The results indicate that the task complexity had an impact on lexical sophistication measures. The students in the framed prompt group were able to include more sophisticated vocabulary in their narratives than those in the bare prompt group. The findings are discussed in terms of the Limited Attentional Capacity Model in that the students in the bare prompt group might have prioritized meaning rather than form in order to ease attentional overload. The findings of our study could assist teachers in selecting writing prompts that have the potential to elicit the targeted features of writing performance.

The present study examines the effects of manipulating cognitive task complexity on high school English learners’ narrative and persuasive writing. Participants were 156 high school students. They were divided into four groups. Each group was given one of four different types of writing that were classified based on their genres (narrative vs. persuasive writing) and dimensions of task complexity (resource-directing vs. resource-dispersing). All participants completed both simple and complex writing tasks for their assigned type of writing. Participants’ written products were measured in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency. The results revealed that increased task complexity, along with the resource-directing dimension, somewhat positively affected the complexity, accuracy, and fluency of both narrative and persuasive writing. However, increased task complexity, along with the resource-dispersing dimension, showed differential effects of cognitive complexity on participants’ written products between the genres. It resulted in decreased scores in fluency and accuracy, and had no significant impact on the complexity of narrative writing. As for persuasive writing, on the other hand, it lowered the fluency, increased the complexity, and had no impact on the accuracy. The pedagogical suggestions drawn from the results are provided along with the limitations of the study.

The influence of task complexity on second language (L2) writing performance has been researched near-exclusively in relation to the linguistic complexity of the learners’ written products, while only limited attention has been paid to the online writing processes. In order to fill this gap, the present study focused on the effects of task demands on writing processes as reflected in keystrokes. Forty-four L1 Korean speakers were randomly assigned to either simple or complex condition, and asked to write an argumentative essay. For the simple condition, content support was provided, whereas no such additional information was provided for the complex condition. During the writing task, participants’ entire keystroke loggings were recorded, and analyzed in terms of fluency, pausing, and revision behaviors. The lexical and syntactic complexity of the written products was also analyzed and compared between the two task conditions. The results indicated that greater task demands significantly increased the number of pauses and revisions, having negative influence on fluency. Also, lexical rarity and phrasal complexity decreased under the complex condition. The results are discussed with respect to fuller understanding of the task-based approach to L2 writing.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of task complexity on the quality of L2 learners’ argumentative writing using both global measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and task-specific measures, namely, for conjunctions. A group of 110 Korean high school students in South Korea performed either a simple or complex argumentative writing task. Task complexity was manipulated by +/–reasoning demands and +/–few elements. A set of 110 argumentative essays were analyzed on 6 global measures of CAF and 2 task-specific measures. The results showed that task complexity affected the fluency of the argumentative writings, in that the complex task group produced more fluent writings than the simple group. However, task complexity did not affect accuracy or syntactic complexity of the argumentative writings. In the task-specific measures, task complexity affected neither frequency nor target-like use of conjunctions. These results have pedagogical implications for task design to help learners develop their L2 proficiency.

This study examines how native English speaking (NES) and Korean non-native English speaking (KNES) teachers assess L2 writing performance. More specifically, this study aims to investigate whether these two groups of raters evaluate writing samples differently when using different rating scales (holistic vs. analytic) and different task types (narrative vs. argumentative). Four NES and four KNES raters evaluated 78 narrative and 78 argumentative essays written by Korean EFL university students using both holistic and analytic rating rubrics. The comparison between the two rater groups indicated that the scores given by the two groups were statistically significantly different for both holistic and analytic ratings regardless of the two task types investigated. Overall, KNES teachers rated the essays more harshly than their NES counterparts, irrespective of task type and rating scale. Multiple regression analysis of five analytic sub-criteria revealed that the two rater groups demonstrated similar patterns in assessing argumentative essays, while for narrative essays, the relative influence of each analytic sub-criterion on overall writing quality differed for the two rater groups. Implications for L2 writing assessment are included.

사회교육이라 함은 다른 법률에 의한 학교교육을 제외하고 국민의 평생교육을 위한 모든 형태의 조직적인 교육활동으로 개인 또는 공동체 생활의 상황 흐름 속에서 즉각적으로 가치화되고 있는 학습을 생산하는것이다. 이 범주에는 방송과 언론 매체를 활용한 것과 사회(평생) 교육원, 사설 학원 등의 교육 기관에서 이루어지는 것, 학습지와 인터넷 컨텐츠를 이용한 것 등이 모두 포함되는데 다만 조직성․의도성․체계성이 미약한 우연적 교육과 무형식 교육은 제외된다. 시청각자료를 통한 학습은 학습자의 흥미를 환기시키고 그들의 주의를 집중시킬 수 있기 때문에 강한 학습 동기를 유발하여 학습자로 하여금 자발적이고 능동적인 학습에 임할 수 있도록 한다. 또 학습자의 질과 양의 폭을 넓혀서 학습의 효율화를 도모하고 학습 결과를 오래 기억할 수 있도록 하며 정확한 사고를 할 수 있도록 도와주기도 한다. 이를 통해 볼 때 방송 매체를 활용한 한자․한문 교육은 사회 교육 차원의 한자․한문 교육의 목표를 성취하는 데 더없이 효과적이라 하겠다. 다만 교육 방송을 통해 제공되는 다양한 한자․한문 교육 관련 프로그램은 학습자의 수준과 흥미를 고려하여 보다 체계적으로 조직될 필요가 있으며, 정규 교육 과정기의 학생을 대상으로 한 프로그램의 경우 한문과 교육 내용 체계를 고려하여 이를 보완할 수 있는 프로그램으로 짜여졌으면 한다. 평생(사회) 교육원은 많은 성인들에게 배움의 기회를 확대하여 그들의 지적․문화적 수준을 높이고, 직업적․사회적 능력을 향상시키는데 기여하고 있다. 평생(사회) 교육원을 통해 이루어지는 한자․한문 교육 프로그램은 자격증 취득 과정에 개설된 한자(한문)지도사과정과 四書나 『古文眞寶』등의 동양 고전을 내용으로 한 교양 강좌가 있다. 그러나 교양 강좌는 학습자의 수준이 다르고 요구 사항이 달라 체계적이고 일관되게 강의를 진행하지 못하였으며, 자격증 취득 과정은 목표 달성을 위해 필요한 절대 時數부족으로 효율성에 회의를 갖게 하였다. 까닭에 명확한 교육 목표를 설정과 교육 목표를 달성을 위한 보다 체계적 프로그램이 마련되어야 할 것이다. 私設機關의 한자․한문 교육 프로그램은 정규 교육과정과 연계된것도 있고 각각의 독자적 프로그램도 있다. 체계화된 이들 프로그램은 사회 교육 차원에서의 한자․한문 교육의 역할을 비교적 충실히 수행하고 있다고 하겠다. 그러나 몇몇 프로그램의 경우 수업 방식에서 개선의 여지가 있는데 이를 잘 보완한다면 정규 교육의 보완 형태로 훌륭한 역할 수행이 될 것으로 보인다. 사회 교육이 시공간적 제약을 넘어 개인이나 공동체 생활 속에서 이를 필요로 하는 개인이나 집단에게 즉각적 가치로 제공되는 것이지만 정규 교과 과정의 보완이라는 현실적 상황도 도외시할 수는 없을 것이다. 까닭에 이를 교육하는 당사자나 학습하는 사람은 한문과 교과 내용 체계에 대한 이해와 한자․한문 교육을 통해 이루게 될 실제적 가치를 아울러 구현할 수 있는 방향을 모색해야 할 것이다.