%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of Task Representation in Completing an Integrated L2 Writing Task: Evidence from Eye-Tracking and Stimulated Recall
%A Pucheng Wang
%A Baoquan Liu
%A Hao Wang
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 773-784
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2020
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2020.106047
%X Task representation is an essential step for second/foreign language writers when they compose either classroom writing assignments or write in a test situation. This study used a combination of eye-tracking and stimulated recall techniques to investigate the task representation processes of 16 non-native English writers who completed an integrated reading-to-write task. Results showed that the participants engaged in task representation processes throughout task completion. Evidence from their eye movements and stimulated verbal recalls proved that this type of cognitive process is not a single, simple act, but an extended, repetitive interpretive process that may occur at different phases of writing. The inclusion of reading materials in a writing task may complicate writersĄŻ task representation process by introducing more reading into the process of writing, and thus calls for more interaction between these two skills.
%K Second Language Writing Assessment
%K Composing Process
%K Integrated  Writing Tasks
%K Task Representation
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=104585