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Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series) (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)

By Eli Hinkel

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2002
ISBN
0805838880, 9780805838886, 9780585395241
LCC
PE1128.A2 H534 2002
Open Library ID
OL3943103M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1503098 bytes)
Series
ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Pages
391\391
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36

Description

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. Specifically, the research investigates the frequencies of uses of 68 linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical features in essays written by advanced non-native speakers compared with those in the essays of native speakers enrolled in first-year composition courses. The selection of features for inclusion in this analysis is based on their textual functions and meanings, as identified in earlier research on English language grammar and lexis. Such analysis is valuable because it can inform the teaching of grammar and lexis, as well as discourse, and serve as a basis for second language curriculum and course design; and provide valuable insight for second language pedagogical applications of the study's findings.

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