Yadollah Hosseini

[ 1 ] - Task Difficulty and Its Components: Are They Alike or Different across Different Macro-genres?

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...