臺灣華語教學研究 Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language
總第四期 Vol. 4（2012.06）：33-49
Impacts of Task Conditions and Writing Modes on L2 Chinese
Writing
Fangyuan Yuan
United States Naval Academy
By following the theoretical framework of human’s limited
processing capacity, this study examines how task conditions and
writing modes influence the output of Chinese learners as a second
language （L2）in the areas of fluency, complexity and accuracy. The
participants were forty-two L2 Chinese learners at a North American
university who were divided into three groups: control group, outline
group, and sentence pattern group. The participants completed two
writing tasks: narration and argumentation under one of the three task
conditions. The output of the performance was measured in seven
constructs in the areas of fluency, accuracy and complexity. The
statistical results reveal that the outline group performed better in
fluency while the sentence pattern group achieved higher scores in
complexity. The participants wrote more accurately in the narrative
writing but less sophisticatedly than in the argumentation writing. The
results are discussed against previous studies using the information
processing theory.
Key Words: Task condition, Wring mode, L2 Chinese, fluency,
accuracy, complexity