TY - JOUR ID - 3956 TI - Development of Fluency, Accuracy, and Complexity in Productive Skills of EFL learners across Gender and Proficiency: A Chaos Complexity Approach JO - Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly (Formerly Journal of Teaching Language Skills) JA - TESL LA - en SN - AU - Alavi, Seyyed Taher AU - Sadeghi, karim AD - Urmia University Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 35 KW - chaos complexity KW - fluency KW - accuracy KW - complexity KW - proficiency KW - oral and written production DO - 10.22099/jtls.2017.3956 N2 - This study was an attempt to investigate the developmental rate of fluency, accuracy and complexity among 12 EFL learners within the framework of chaos complexity theory. To carry out this study, 6 female and 6 male participants in two levels of proficiency (pre-and upper-intermediate) were put in two classes taught by the same teacher and following the same course. Every two months (for a period of four months) they were asked to write a narrative using the pictorial sequence of a story, and they were also asked to tell the same story orally after three days. Their productions were analyzed for fluency, accuracy and complexity (lexical and grammatical). The results, compared inter and inrta-individually, revealed that there was no common pattern of development among different learners with different proficiency or gender. A closer examination of the oral and written productions of these learners showed that the emergence of complexity, fluency, and accuracy could be seen as a system adapting to a changing context, in which the language resources of each individual were uniquely transformed through use and in which chaos, dynamicity, unpredictability, and self-organization were clearly observed in the participants’ productions.   UR - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3956.html L1 - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3956_3c07f47eee8d5d3e2bb350eafad8c483.pdf ER -