一、主講人介紹： 

陸小飛教授，俄亥俄州立大學語言學博士，現任賓夕法尼亞州立大學應用語言學系教授、博士生導師。主要研究領域為語料庫語言學、學術英語、二語寫作、二語習得及計算機輔助語言教學。擔任 Ampersand和 Frontiers in Psychology副主編及Journal of Second Language Writing等10余種權威期刊編委會成員。最新專著Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, and Findings于2023年在 Routledge出版。在American Educational Research Journal, Applied Linguistics, Assessing Writing, Behavior Research Methods, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Educational Researcher, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, Language Learning & Technology, Language Teaching Research, ReCALL, System, TESOL Quarterly和The Modern Language Journal等權威期刊發表論文70余篇。2019-2022年連續四年入選斯坦福大學發布的語言研究領域全球2%頂尖科學家“年度影響力”榜單。開發的句法與詞匯復雜度分析器得到國際上二語寫作與習得研究者的廣泛應用。

二、講座信息     

This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners' perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters' comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180 texts abridged from college English coursebooks and raters were 90 advanced Chinese L2 English learners. Forty-five raters read paired texts and determined which text was harder to understand in each pair, and another 45 raters read paired texts and determined which text they read faster in each pair. Two linear stepwise regression models containing lexical, syntactic, and discoursal features explained 48.1% and 54.6% of the variance in L2 learners' estimates of text comprehensibility and reading speed, receptively, outperforming three first language readability models. These findings contribute useful insight into the relationship between linguistic complexity and L2 learners' perception of text difficultly.

講座時間：2023年6月26日9:00-11:00

講座地點：外國語學院N202

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三、主辦單位

外國語學院

國際合作與交流處

2023年6月25日