The Study of Stage-like Development of Morpho-syntactic Structures in EFL Learners’ Writing Performance: A Processability Theory Account for Cases of “Plural -s” and “Adverb Fronting”

Document Type: Original Research Paper

Authors

• Mahin Sadat Tabatabaee
• Keivan Mahmoodi
• Abbas Bayat

Islamic Azad University, Malayer Branch Hamedan, Iran

Keywords

• Adverb fronting
• plural -s
• processability theory
• second language learning
• stage-like development