Discourse Connector Usage in Argumentative Essays by American and Thai University Students

Autor/inn/en	Jangarun, Kamolphan; Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn
Titel	Discourse Connector Usage in Argumentative Essays by American and Thai University Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 20 (2016) 1, S.95-112 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1345-8353
Schlagwörter	Connected Discourse; Form Classes (Languages); Statistical Analysis; Essays; Computational Linguistics; Persuasive Discourse; Interlanguage; Transfer of Training; Second Language Learning; Communication Strategies; Pragmatics; North Americans; Asians; Undergraduate Students; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Scores; Native Speakers; North American English; English (Second Language); Discourse Analysis; Thailand (Bangkok) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Statistische Analyse; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Zielsprache; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kommunikationsstrategie; Pragmalinguistik; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Fragebogen; Ausland; Muttersprachler; Amerikanisches Englisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	This study investigated the similarities and differences in the use of discourse connectors (DCs) in argumentative essays of American undergraduate students (AMs), Thai with high-English exposure (THHs) and Thai with low-English exposure (THLs). The data of these three groups were collected from 60 essays; 20 essays were from the corpus of University of Michigan with a total of 43 essays, the 40 Thai data were selected from 300 Thai university students based on their English exposure scores. Adopting the theoretical framework of Halliday and Hasan (1976), Biber et al. (1999), and Cowan (2008), there were five categories of DCs in this study: Additive, Adversative, Causal, Temporal, and Continuatives. The data were statistically analyzed in terms of mean, standard deviation, t-test, and One-Way ANOVA. It was found that there was a significant difference in two categories: Causal and Temporal. The t-test for Causal was 0.007, and the t-test for Temporal was 0.005 (p < 0.05). The differences in the use of DCs in AMs and THHs and THLs could be the effect of interlanguage processes, i.e., Language Transfer, Transfer of training, and Strategies of second language communication. Additive category was most frequently used by all three groups, especially the use of the DC lexis "and." It is interesting to discover that pragmatically speaking "and" represents many discourse functions beside Addition. It is used in all main categories, i.e., Adversative, Causal, Temporal and Continuatives. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01