Johnson’s Article Appears in Applied Linguistics

Drs. Mark Johnson and Mahmoud Abdi Tabari (University of Nevada, Reno) have just had their study, “Task Planning and Oral L2 Production: A Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis,” published in the journal Applied Linguistics. In addition to providing a critical review of operational definitions of task planning and linguistic complexity, the study uses meta-analytic research methods to directly compare the effect(s) of planning on the syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency of oral second language production. The results add to the growing body of research on the effects of task complexity features on second language production.