A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of the Logical Connector "Thus" in the Academic Writing of Turkish EFL Learners

Autor/inn/en	Uçar, Serpil; Yükselir, Ceyhun
Titel	A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of the Logical Connector "Thus" in the Academic Writing of Turkish EFL Learners
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 10 (2017) 2, S.64-72 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Academic Discourse; North American English; Advanced Students; Semantics; Native Speakers; Comparative Analysis; Language Usage; Language Variation; Error Analysis (Language); Control Groups; Scientific Research; Classification; Discourse Analysis; Word Frequency; Written Language; Contrastive Linguistics; Turkish; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Discourse; Diskurs; Amerikanisches Englisch; Fortgeschrittener; Semantik; Muttersprachler; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachenvielfalt; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Diskursanalyse; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Geschriebene Sprache; Kontrastive Linguistik; Türkisch; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	This research was conducted to investigate how frequently Turkish advanced learners of English use the logical connector "thus" in their academic prose and to investigate whether it was overused, underused or misused semantically in comparison to English native speakers. The data were collected from three corpora; Corpus of Contemporary American English and 20 scientific articles of native speakers as control corpora, and 20 scientific articles of Turkish advanced EFL learners. The raw frequencies, frequencies per million words, frequencies per text and log-likelihood ratio were measured so as to compare varieties across the three corpora. The findings revealed that Turkish learners of English showed underuse in the use of the connector "thus" in their academic prose compared to native speakers. Additionally, they did not demonstrate misuse in the use of the connector "thus". Nevertheless, non-native learners of English tended to use this connector in a resultative role (cause-effect relation) more frequently whereas native speakers used it in appositional and summative roles more as well as its resultative role. Furthermore, the most frequent occurrences of "thus" have been in academic genre. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01