In:Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis
Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris
[Task-Based Language Teaching 18] 2025
► pp. 98–136
Chapter 4What is second language cognitive task complexity?
Published online: 26 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.18.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/tblt.18.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Operationalizations of cognitive task complexity
- 4.2.1Planning
- 4.2.1.1Pre-task planning
- 4.2.1.2Online planning
- 4.2.2Number of elements and Reasoning demands
- 4.2.2.1Both variables manipulated simultaneously
- 4.2.2.2Only the reasoning demands variable was manipulated
- 4.2.2.3Only the number of elements variable was manipulated
- 4.2.3Repetition
- 4.2.4Familiarity
- 4.2.5Here-and-now vs. there-and-then and Contextual support
- 4.2.6Tight vs. loose task structure
- 4.2.7Single vs. dual mode
- 4.2.8+/−Scaffolding
- 4.2.9Levels of processing
- 4.2.10Other task complexity operationalizations
- 4.2.1Planning
- 4.3Summary and conclusion
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