Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency

1. Table of contents; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Notes on contributors; 4. Complexity, accuracy and fluency: Definitions, measurement and research (by Housen, Alex); 5. Defining and operationalising L2 complexity (by Bulte, Bram); 6. Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency from the perspective of psycholinguistic Second Language Acquisition research (by Towell, Richard J.); 7. Complexity, accuracy and fluency: The role played by formulaic sequences in early interlanguage development (by Myles, Florence); 8. The growth of complexity and accuracy in L2 French: Past observations and recent applications of developmental stages (by Agren, Malin); 9. The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and non-native speakers (by Jong, Nivja de); 10. Syntactic complexity, lexical variation and accuracy as a function of task complexity and proficiency level in L2 writing and speaking (by Kuiken, Folkert); 11. The effects of cognitive task complexity on L2 oral production (by Levkina, Mayya); 12. Complexity, accuracy, fluency and lexis in task-based performance: A synthesis of the Ealing research (by Skehan, Peter); 13. Measuring and perceiving changes in oral complexity, accuracy and fluency: Examining instructed learners' short-term gains (by Tonkyn, Alan Paul); 14. The development of complexity, accuracy and fluency in the written production of L2 French (by Gunnarsson, Cecilia); 15. A longitudinal study of complexity, accuracy and fluency variation in second language development (by Ferraris, Stefania); 16. Epilogue (by Housen, Alex); 17. Index