Adversative Connectors Use in EFL and Native Students’ Writing: A Contrastive Analysis

Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur, Hossein Hosseini Pour
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A compelling body of evidence suggests that EFL students have problem with logical connectors’ appropriate use in writing. This study explored Iranian EFL students’ adversative connectors use in their essay writing course. To this end, a Learner Corpus of 60393 words consisting of 156 essays was compiled. LOCNESS was chosen as the criterion corpus. AntConc, a freeware concordance program, was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that, in general, learners underused adversative connectors; both native and non-native students used but the most; on the other hand, and while were overused and despite, yet, and instead were underused by the learners suggesting that the top five most overused adversative connectors make up around 72% of learners’ adversative connector use indicating that learners tend to use the same adversative connectors at the cost of underusing the other ones. Analysis of concordance line also illustrated that the learners tended to misuse the subordinating conjunction whereas and though in the initial position. It seems that learners need to be taught how to distinguish between different types of adversative connectors and how to use a wider variety of adversative connectors to reach a better coherence and cohesion in their writings.
英语和母语学生写作中对抗性连接词的使用对比分析
一项令人信服的证据表明,英语学生在写作中逻辑连接词的恰当使用方面存在问题。本研究探讨伊朗学生在论文写作课程中使用的对抗性连接词。为此,编写了156篇文章,共计60393个单词的学习者语料库。选择loness作为标准语料。使用免费的数据整理软件AntConc对数据进行分析。研究结果表明,总体而言,学习者未充分使用对抗性连接词;本地和非本地学生都使用,但最多;另一方面,虽然被过度使用,尽管,然而,而不是被学习者充分使用,这表明前五个最被过度使用的敌对连接词占学习者使用的敌对连接词的72%左右,这表明学习者倾向于使用相同的敌对连接词,而不充分使用其他的。对协和线的分析也表明,学习者在初始位置时倾向于误用从属连词。学习者似乎需要被教导如何区分不同类型的副词连接词,以及如何使用更多种类的副词连接词来达到更好的连贯和衔接。
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