Result linking adverbials in learner corpora
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result linking adverbials, learner corpora, English for Academic PurposeResumen
This article aims to present an investigation of the use of the following linking adverbials: so, therefore, and thus in essay writing of Brazilian university students. Few corpora-based studies have been carried out on the use of cohesive devices in the written production of Brazilian university students in comparison to the writing of American and British university students. It is worth mentioning Matte and Sarmento (2018) and Dutra et al. (2017) who identified differences among the groups concerning the use of additive linking adverbials. The present study compares the occurrences of result linking adverbials in the Corpus of English for Academic Purposes (CorIFA), in the Corpus of English Without Borders (CorIsF), and in the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). The linking adverbials were identified by using AntConc 3.4.4 (ANTHONY, 2016). The concordance lines generated by the program were analyzed, and the linking adverbials were classified according to their meaning and syntactic position. Then, the data were submitted to the statistical log-likelihood test and the overuse, and underuse of items were studied across the dataset. The results indicate differences mainly concerning syntactic position and meaning of the linking adverbials. Analyzing these differences is instrumental as it may contribute to a better understanding of Brazilian learners’ written academic discourse and, in turn, it can assist language educators and material designers who work with to the teaching of English for Academic Purposes.
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