[PDF] Top 20 A Corpus-based Study on the Use of Contractions by EFL Learners in Argumentative Essays

... research, contractions (mainly negative/not- contractions) are significantly overused in non-native English students’ essays when compared to native English students’ essays and academic ... See full document

... prevent learners from inferring, and they also misunderstand native ...Wrong use of collocation can cause native speakers not to comprehend what the learners ...language learners is the ... See full document

... French-speaking EFL learners’ spoken and written production and two native corpora of a similar nature, Gilquin examined whether and to what extent the advanced learners differed from the native ... See full document

... the use of learner corpus data (extracted from Cambridge Learner Corpus – CLC) to carry out an error analysis to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of ... See full document

... Persian-speaking learners. The results of the study showed that most errors included in participants’ compositions resulted from inadequate lexical knowledge, misuse of prepositions and pronouns, seriously ... See full document

... for EFL learners because verb usage is highly related with the usage context and not consistently captured by local ...to use verbs in the context appropriately is challenging task as they often ... See full document

... which learners are exposed to language just for few hours a week (Kim & Kim, ...provide learners with a natural context for language use. As learners work to complete a task, they have ... See full document

... Academic texts of multiple disciplines are analysed using different types of text analysis approaches as they assist to uncover the written conventions. However, most of the approaches are mainly concerned to ... See full document

... procedure, EFL learners from three different universities in Ardebil and Urmia (Iran) took part in the ...90 EFL learners completed a writing task in which they were asked to write an ... See full document

... the study shows from the assumption that the use of metadiscourse markers is influenced by gender ...This study is based on two variables, the number of metadiscourse markers and the quality ... See full document

... This study presents a corpus-based investigation of how Arab students of English use modality in academic ...the study is on the writing of Arab L2 learners, regular comparisons ... See full document

... National Corpus was chosen to serve as a benchmark for measuring the appropriateness of learners’production of collocations which failed to be attested in collocation ...general corpus representing as wide ... See full document

... obtained. Learners' use of reading strategies in reading texts is one of the interesting topics on which many research studies have been ...the learners' gender in reading comprehension, on the one ... See full document

... that learners who wrote on the basis of process approach while going through different stages of planning, drafting, revising, or editing and also those learners who practiced writing via process-product ... See full document

... present study was to detect and analyze the possible effects of manipulating cognitive task complexity through the resource-dispersing factors on fluency and lexical complexity of argumentative ... See full document

... American learners’ corpus exclusively refer to the imagined reader, but many examples of generic and indefinite ‘you’ are used which could have been replaced with ‘we, us, our’ and ...Pakistani ... See full document

... of essays suggests that there are four possible types of progression from the topic of one clause to the topics of the following ...to use topical progression appropriately and ...words, essays in ... See full document

... this study intended to adopt an appropriate ap- proach to providing feedback, the use of e-feedback has been noticed in the literature, as a technique which can be highly effective (Ene & Upton, 2014), ... See full document

... Iranian EFL learners confront is the difference between the organizational patterns of English and Persian argumentative texts, which magnifies the challenge they encounter while ...English ... See full document

... a study on word stress patterns suggested by Checklin (2012) focusing on the second rule which relates to word classes that the researcher believes it will be best implemented in English noun to verb conversion ... See full document