Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
XII. Yıldız Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi , İstanbul, Türkiye, 4 - 05 Aralık 2025, ss.142, (Özet Bildiri)
Within the recent shifts in approaches to language teaching, using language to communicate has gained enormous importance. Thus, the research on productive skills of the language has attracted greater attention by putting emphasis on language performance studies in second language acquisition (Vercellotti, 2018). In the context of English as a Foreign Language, spoken production is closely tied to syntactic complexity of the target language. Hence, the interaction between the two plays a crucial role in understanding how English learners from different multilingual backgrounds cope with the cognitive demands of L2 English production. Considering these, the aim of the current study was to investigate the crosslinguistic influence of previously acquired languages on L2 English syntactic complexity in formal and informal speech of B1-B2 level multilingual groups. For the purposes of the study 7 participants for GER-ITA-ENG, 4 participants for TUR-ENG and 6 participants for NS groups were recruited following the purposeful sampling procedure. Applying a quasiexperimental approach the spoken data were gathered via online interviews with each group by using “Language Situations” elicitation technique (Wiese, 2020). After identifying syntactic complexity measures based on L2 syntactic complexity analyzer (Kim & Lu, 2024) quantitative data analyses were performed. The results of the analyses showed that GER-ITAENG group outperformed TUR-ENG group in terms of mean length of AS units, clauses, the number of dependent clauses and complex nominals. Furthermore, crosslinguistic proximity of previously acquired languages to the target language was found out to have a prominent impact on L2 English spoken production.