Iraqi Kurd EFL Learners' Uses of Conjunctive Adverbials in Essays

Autor/inn/en	Aziz, Awder Raza; Nuri, Rebaz Bahadeen Mohammed
Titel	Iraqi Kurd EFL Learners' Uses of Conjunctive Adverbials in Essays
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 12 (2021) 2, S.222-237 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aziz, Awder Raza) ORCID (Nuri, Rebaz Bahadeen Mohammed)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Ethnic Groups; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Form Classes (Languages); Essays; Connected Discourse; Academic Language; Writing Skills; Sentences; Computational Linguistics; Word Frequency; Language Usage; Classification; Undergraduate Students; Teaching Methods; Iraq + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Analytischer Sprachbau; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Sprachgebrauch; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Irak
Abstract	The quality of any academic essay highly depends on cohesion and coherence since they affect the overall quality and the tone of the writing to a great extent. Conjunctive adverbials are among the types of devices which logically help linking sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into essays. Conjunctive Adverbials ultimately affect the cohesion and coherence of any piece of writing. This paper investigates conjunctive adverbials in essays written by Iraqi Kurd EFL learners at the undergraduate level. It explicitly attempts to discover what specific conjunctive adverbials types are overused, underused, or misused and in what positions in sentences. A learner corpus of 50 complete essays was compiled for this study. The findings showed that the participants tended to use more sequential and additive conjunctive adverbials than adversative and causals. Additionally, the results demonstrated that the learners relied heavily on a limited number of conjunctive adverbials, mainly in the initial position. However, the conjunctive adverbial category affects its place in the sentence. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01