Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development

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Gary G. Fogal

Marjolijn Verspoor

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This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign languages. The text is arranged thematically across four topics: (i) perspectives on complexity, accuracy, and fluency, (ii) new constructs, approaches, and domains of L2-writing scholarship, (iii) methodological issues, and finally (iv) curricular perspectives. This work should appeal to graduate students and academics interested in expanded discussions on CDST, highlighting its utility for theorizing and researching language change, and to L2 writing scholars curious about how this fresh approach to researching L2 development can inform understandings of how L2 writing develops. As a CDST approach to language change has matured and taken a place among the dominant epistemologies in the field, students and researchers of L2 development alike will benefit from this volume.

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] 2020. xvii, 304 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.54

Table of Contents

Foreword

Diane Larsen-Freeman | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor | pp. ix–xviii

Part I. CAF perspectives

Chapter 1. Exploring dynamic developmental trajectories of writing fluency: Who benefited from the writing task?

Kyoko Baba | pp. 3–26

Chapter 2. Coordination of linguistic subsystems as a sign of automatization?

Junping Hou, Hanneke Loerts and Marjolijn H. Verspoor | pp. 27–48

Chapter 3. The dynamic co-development of linguistic and discourse-semantic complexity in advanced L2 writing

Yu Wang and Shoucun Tao | pp. 49–78

Part II. New constructs, approaches, and domains

Chapter 4. Adaptive imitation: Formulaicity and the words of others in L2 English academic writing

Susy Macqueen and Ute Knoch | pp. 81–108

Chapter 5. Profiling the dynamic changes of syntactic complexity in L2 academic writing: A multilevel synchrony method

R. Rosmawati | pp. 109–132

Chapter 6. Biographical retrodiction for investigating the evolution of learner agency and L2 writing development through study abroad experiences

Ryo Nitta | pp. 133–158

Part III. Methodological perspectives

Chapter 7. The elusive phase shift: Capturing changes in L2 writing development and interaction between the cognitive and social ecosystems

Elizabeth Hepford | pp. 161–182

Chapter 8. Investigating complexity in L2 writing with mixed methods approaches

Alex Gilmore and Gabriela Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez | pp. 183–206

Chapter 9. A critical appraisal of the CDST approach to investigating linguistic complexity in L2 writing development

Bram Bulté and Alex Housen | pp. 207–238

Part IV. Curricular perspectives

Chapter 10. Envisioning L2 writing development in CDST under a curricular optic: A proposal

Heidi Byrnes | pp. 241–270

Chapter 11. Unpacking ‘simplex systems’: Curricular thinking for L2 writing development

Gary G. Fogal | pp. 271–294

List of contributors | pp. 295–298

Index | pp. 299–304

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