کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6842926 1435957 2018 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The construction of opposition relations in high-, middle-, and low-rated postgraduate ESL Chinese students' essays
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
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The construction of opposition relations in high-, middle-, and low-rated postgraduate ESL Chinese students' essays
چکیده انگلیسی
The construction of opposition relations is highly expected in writing at higher-university levels. Through specific discourse markers, writers signal these relations to demonstrate precision and awareness of complexity of others' views and to evaluate those views critically. However, despite the high value of opposition relations in advanced academic writing, little is known about students' construction of these relations. To contribute to this knowledge, this study built a corpus of argumentative essays written by native speakers of Chinese as part of their master's course assignments and compared the form and function of opposition relations in low-, middle-, and high-scored student writing. The quantitative analysis showed that the relationship between the frequency of opposition markers and writing score was not significant. However, considerable differences were found between the function and writing score when analysing the results qualitatively. High-scoring students used substantially more concessive and contrast expressions than middle- and low-scoring students. Suggestions for the teaching of opposition relations are discussed.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of English for Academic Purposes - Volume 34, July 2018, Pages 68-85
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