抄録
This study aims to examine the relationship between L2 learners' real-time
processes of essay writing and the ratings of their products. To investigate the
relationship, keystroke logging data were collected and analyzed. Previous studies on
L2 writing have claimed that good writers tend to show sub-processes of writing such
as (a) planning, (b) formulation, and (c) revision more clearly than novice writers.
However, these insights had been given only by the use of retrospective methods, and
had not been tested well using quantitative methodologies such as keystroke logging.
Thus, the present study recorded 35 Japanese EFL learners' keystrokes during their
essay writing. The time-series transition of their writing, which was operationalized as
the change in numbers of words over time, was fitted to the linear regression model
and the Poisson distribution model. The results suggested that the time series transition
of most of the writers exhibited better fitness to the linear regression model. Also, our
multivariate correlation analyses among the indices representing the participants'
tendencies of writing and the ratings of the products revealed that some of the indices
predicted a part of the variance in the ratings. Possible applications of this approach in
future research and some pedagogical implications are also discussed.
