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The role of task complexity and task motivation in language production

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dc.contributor.authorMasrom U.K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMohd Alwi N.A.N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMat Daud N.S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorid56716237300en_US
dc.contributor.authorid54988454600en_US
dc.contributor.authorid55769432300en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-29T06:00:09Z
dc.date.available2023-05-29T06:00:09Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the relationship between the cognitive demands of task complexity and learners� motivation towards several tasks using task-based instruction during asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) writing tasks. According to Robinson�s Cognition Hypotheses (2001a, 2005, 2007), the production of language would be different when certain manipulation of task complexity was made. The tasks were manipulated following two variables from the Cognition Hypotheses, along resource-directing (+/- causal reasoning demand) and resource-dispersing (+/- task structure) dimensions. Eighty-eight undergraduate students from one of the technical universities in Malaysia were divided into four groups and assigned with a writing task. After the participants have completed the writing tasks, they were interviewed and asked to complete a questionnaire to gauge their motivation towards the tasks. Participants� written language production was coded and analyzed using syntactic and lexical complexity measures. Further analysis of the data was conducted using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and correlational analysis. Analyses of the results showed that there is a correlation between task complexity and task motivation among learners. However, the correlation is only evident in lexical complexity production and no correlation was found for any of the syntactic complexity measures. This study is significant as it explores the roles of task complexity and task motivation in mediating the production of language. It also highlights how the manipulation of task complexity would encourage the production of the language in terms of its complexity. � 2015 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press. All rights reserved.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.17576/gema-2015-1502-03
dc.identifier.epage49
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84936742553
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dc.identifier.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84936742553&doi=10.17576%2fgema-2015-1502-03&partnerID=40&md5=2448e3eba3c491b13c3765a504418d37
dc.identifier.urihttps://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/22315
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.publisherPenerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysiaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAll Open Access, Gold, Green
dc.sourceScopus
dc.sourcetitleGEMA Online Journal of Language Studies
dc.titleThe role of task complexity and task motivation in language productionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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