A graduate student in language education

Source text:

This finding suggests that L-S was common to HP and LP participants, and it might have facilitated their writing processes while they were composing. … As the present analyses suggest, the HP learners appeared to benefit extensively from switching to their L1 for rhetorical choices and discourse. … On the other hand, the LP learners’ L-S seemed to provide opportunities for them to generate content and review their texts

Source:

Wang, L. (2003). Switching to first language among writers with differing second-language proficiency. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12, 347-375

Writer’s text:

Finally, this study contends that L2 writers’ language switching behaviors would vary in several aspects by their L2 proficiency, but L1 could generally facilitate L2 writers of varying L2 proficiency in some way.

Writer’s comment:

Actually I selected 3 sentences in one paragraph and kind of integrated them together…I just combined them into one because I don’t see the necessity of using three sentences to say this.