Johnson Delivers Keynote Address

Dr. Mark Johnson delivered a keynote plenary presentation at the Second Language Writing Research Seminar at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. His presentation, “Formal Genre-Specific Knowledge as a Resource-Dispersing Feature of Cognitive Task Complexity: Implications for Task Complexity Theory and Research,” dovetailed models of working memory in writing and task complexity frameworks in order to better situate genre and its effect on the linguistic complexity of written second language (L2) production.