The Use of Discourse Connectives in the Written Academic Discourse of Students Majoring in Arabic and Their Peers Majoring in English

Autor/in	Abdi, Ons
Titel	The Use of Discourse Connectives in the Written Academic Discourse of Students Majoring in Arabic and Their Peers Majoring in English
Quelle	In: Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6 (2021) 1, S.32-59 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2490-4198
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Form Classes (Languages); Writing (Composition); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Academic Language; Semitic Languages; Computational Linguistics; Persuasive Discourse; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Phrase Structure; Sentence Structure; Essays; Contrastive Linguistics; Tunisia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Schreibübung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Phrasenstruktur; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Kontrastive Linguistik; Tunesien
Abstract	The present paper explores the use of connectives in the persuasive discourse of 30 Tunisian third-year English majors and 30 Tunisian third-year Arabic majors. The study aims to look at the potential impact of Arabic rhetoric on Tunisians' EFL writing. A quantitative analysis of the students' Arabic and English essays on the same argumentative task shows the predominance of additive connectives at the clause and sentence levels and their overuse in Arabic productions. Causal connectives are the second most used category in both Arabic and English corpora. The two groups also showed comparable limited repertoires. A qualitative analysis of the data disclosed further similarities and differences in the ways connectives are used, combined and misused. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia. 94 BD du 9 Avril Tunis 1007, Tunisia. Tel: 216-71564797; Fax: 216-567551; Web site: http://www.arjals.com/ojs/index.php/Arjals2016
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01