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Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non‐native EFL speakers of English
Sylviane Granger,Stephanie Tyson +1 more
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In this article, a bottom-up approach was adopted for the study of connector usage in French-English discourse, and a qualitative look showed strong evidence of overuse and underuse of individual connectors, as well as semantic, stylistic and syntactic misuse.Abstract:
In this study we focus on cohesion in discourse, and more specifically on connector usage. Acknowledging the importance of combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach in the study of discourse, we adopt a bottom-up approach which is favoured by our methodology. In the first section we evaluate previous studies of learner connector usage and the literature on contrastive French-English connector usage. We hypothesize that we will discover a general overuse of connectors by learners and use the ICLE corpus of learner English to test the hypothesis. Our study reveals no overall overuse of connectors by learners and thus contradicts the initial hypothesis. A more qualitative look shows strong evidence of overuse and underuse of individual connectors, as well as semantic, stylistic and syntactic misuse. We conclude that learners should not be presented with lists of ‘interchangeable’ connectors but instead taught the semantic, stylistic and syntactic behaviour of individual connectors, using authentic texts.read more
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Michael Halliday,Ruqaiya Hasan +1 more
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Lester Faigley,Stephen P. Witte +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that low-rated papers usually contain far more errors than high-rated essays, and with few exceptions the syntactic features of high-and lowrated essays written by college students are not clearly differentiated.
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A study of cohesion and coherence in English as a second language students’ writing
TL;DR: The authors examined cohesion and coherence in ESL learners' writing compared with the writing of native English speakers and found that ESL writers were found to lack the variety of lexical cohesive devices used by the native speakers.