EUROSLA MONOGRAPHS SERIES 1 COMMUNICATIVE PROFICIENCY AND LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT: intersections between SLA and language testing research EDITED BY INGE BARTNING University of Stockholm MAISA MARTIN University of Jyväskylä INEKE VEDDER University of Amsterdam EUROPEAN SECOND LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 2010 Eurosla monographs Eurosla publishes a monographs series, available open access on the association’s website. The series includes both single-author and edited volumes on any aspect of second language acquisition. Manuscripts are evaluated with a double blind peer review system to ensu- re that they meet the highest qualitative standards. Editors Gabriele Pallotti (Series editor), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Fabiana Rosi (Assistant editor), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia © The Authors 2010 Published under the Creative Commons "Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0" license First published by Eurosla, 2010 An online version of this volume can be downloaded from eurosla.org Graphic design and layout: Pia ’t Lam First edition (august 2010) printed by Edisegno srl, Rome, Italy Table of contents Foreword 5 Developmental stages in second-language acquisition and levels of second-language proficiency: Are there links between them? Jan H. Hulstijn, J. Charles Alderson and Rob Schoonen 11 Designing and assessing L2 writing tasks across CEFR proficiency levels Riikka Alanen, Ari Huhta and Mirja Tarnanen 21 On Becoming an Independent User Maisa Martin, Sanna Mustonen, Nina Reiman and Marja Seilonen 57 Communicative Adequacy and Linguistic Complexity in L2 writing Folkert Kuiken, Ineke Vedder and Roger Gilabert 81 Exemplifying the CEFR: criterial features of written learner English from the English Profile Programme Angeliki Salamoura & Nick Saville 101 Can linguistic features discriminate between the communicative CEFR-levels? A pilot study of written L2 French Fanny Forsberg & Inge Bartning 133 Doing interlanguage analysis in school contexts Gabriele Pallotti 159 Discourse connectives across CEFR-levels: A corpus based study Cecilie Carlsen 191 The development of vocabulary breadth across the CEFR levels. A common basis for the elaboration of language syllabuses, curriculum guidelines, examinations, and textbooks across Europe James Milton 211 Linking L2 proficiency to L2 acquisition: Opportunities and challenges of profiling research 233 Jan H. Hulstijn Language testing-informed SLA? SLA-informed language testing? J. Charles Alderson 239 About the authors 249 Editorial board Cecilia Andorno, University of Pavia Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona Camilla Bardel, Stockholm University Alessandro Benati, University of Greenwich Sandra Benazzo, Université Lille 3 Giuliano Bernini, University of Bergamo Camilla Bettoni, University of Verona Marina Chini, University of Pavia Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck College, UCL Anna Giacalone Ramat, University of Pavia Roger Gilabert, University of Barcelona Gisela Hákansson, Lund University Henriëtte Hendriks, University of Cambridge Martin Howard, University College Cork Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai’i at MÇnoa Judit Kormos, Lancaster University Folkert Kuiken, University of Amsterdam Maisa Martin, University of Jyväskylä James Milton, Swansea University John Norris, University of Hawai’i at MÇnoa Lourdes Ortega, University of Hawai’i at MÇnoa Simona Pekarek-Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel Manfred Pienemann, University of Paderborn/University of Newcastle upon Tyne Leah Roberts, MPl.

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