Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features
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This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. Specifically, the research investigates the frequencies of uses of 68 linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical features in essays written by advanced non-native speakers compared with those in the essays of native speakers enrolled in first-year composition courses. The selection of features for inclusion in this analysis is based on their textual functions and meanings, as identified in earlier research on English language grammar and lexis. Such analysis is valuable because it can inform the teaching of grammar and lexis, as well as discourse, and serve as a basis for second language curriculum and course design; and provide valuable insight for second language pedagogical applications of the study's findings.
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High frequency of use of predicate adjectives is related to lower second language proficiency.
“Hinkel (2002) found that high frequency of use of predicate adjectives was related to lower second language proficiency”
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- Authors
- Hinkel, E.
- Corresponding author
- Hinkel, Eli
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2002-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W4234014539
- Cited by
- 240
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 5.06
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- second language writing, non-native English speakers, syntactic features, lexical features, rhetorical features, essay writing, first-year composition
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