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Suhendar, Komara
Universitas LIA, Jakarta, Indonesia
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The Effect of Planning on Complexity, and Accuracy in Second Language Production: A Case Study in Learner’s Writing Komara Suhendar
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER
Publisher : Hasanuddin University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (709.451 KB) | DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5762

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This case study investigates the effect of planning on complexity, and accuracy in second language (L2) learners’ writing. The subject of the research is a twenty-four-year-old-Indonesian student named Della. She is selected due to her most current IELTS score, and her first-time residence in English speaking country. The participant is asked to write two writing tasks which was taken from IELTS topics. While the duration of time is set for the first task, the second task is not limited by time. After that, the results are compared and analyzed by means of T-unit as in Hunt (1965). The result of the research shows that planning may lead to slight improvement in learner’s writing. In terms of accuracy, there is 69.23% of error-free T-unit in task 1, and 72.22% in task 2. Similarly, in connection with complexity, the average length of T-unit and clauses in task 1 and task 2 is 12.92 and 15 respectively.
Examining Syntactic Complexity in EFL Learners’ IELTS Writing Performance Komara Suhendar
DEIKTIS: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Vol. 5 No. 4 (2025)
Publisher : Perkumpulan Dosen Muslim Indonesia - Sulawesi Selatan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.53769/deiktis.v5i4.2304

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This study investigated IELTS writing performance among EFL learners with advanced proficiency in terms of syntactic complexity. Following Lu’s proposal (2011) on the indices of syntactic complexity, the writings were analysed through several measures, such as length of production, sentence complexity, subordination, coordination, and particular structures (e.g. complex nominals and verb phrases). The findings of this study reveal that. The findings reveal that learners construct sentences primarily through clausal structures, with a mean sentence length of 16.55 words and an average of 2.26 clauses per sentence. At the same time, they also demonstrate dominance in the use of complex nominals and coordinate phrases, which accounted for 4.49 per T-unit and 5.85 per T-unit, respectively. While these findings partially support the view that growth in one domain can lead to a reduction in another, they also present a more nuanced perspective. Specifically, the results suggest that advanced learners tend to employ clausal complexity to achieve cohesion and phrasal complexity to ensure conciseness in their writing. These findings extend the existing literature on syntactic complexity by emphasizing the interplay between clausal and phrasal constructions in advanced learners’ writing.
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