Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Journal Title: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL)
Volume Number: 62
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: March 2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: Textual Analysis to Inform Language Learning and Teaching; Issue Editors: Wenjuan Qin and Paola Uccelli

Main Text:

Editorial

Introduction: textual analysis to inform language learning and teaching
Wenjuan Qin, Paola Uccelli
pp. 1-4

Research Articles

Open Access
Internal and external appraisals of analytical writing. A proposal for assessing development and potential improvement
Liliana Tolchinsky, Elisa Rosado, Melina Aparici
pp. 5-36

Group trends and individual variability in writing development: a descriptive grammatical complexity analysis
Wenjuan Qin, Huixian Li, Yongyan Zheng
pp. 37-60

Exploring individual longitudinal development in a corpus of ‘natural’ disciplinary writing: what could it mean for teaching?
Randi Reppen
pp. 61-78

The development of syntactic complexity of Chinese JFL learners based on Mean Dependency Distance and Mean Hierarchical Distance
Xiaomin Yang, Wenping Li
pp. 79-104

Connective Frequency Bands informed by textbook frequencies and midadolescents’ knowledge of connectives: a tool to support Spanish literacy instruction across content areas
Alejandra Meneses, Silvana Arriagada, Sebastián Caro, Felipe Baeza, Paola Uccelli
pp. 105-135

Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China
Yanfang Su, Kanglong Liu, Fengkai Liu, John Lee, Tan Jin
pp. 137-164

Sub-disciplinary variation of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles: a functional analysis of medical discourse
Songyun Chen, Jiajin Xu, Xin Feng
pp. 165-195

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics