Hong Kong students overuse enumerating, resultive and summative discourse connectives relative to L1, Singaporean and Thai writers¶
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Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2020: baselines and conditions change
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q2 i? Hong Kong students rely more strongly on enumerating, resultive and summative DCs than Thai students, who in turn use these devices much more than L1 and Singaporean students. → Hu 2015
Evidence¶
Hu 2015¶
Hu, C., & Li, Y. (2015). Discourse Connectives in L1 and L2 Argumentative Writing. Higher Education Studies. https://doi.org/10.5539/hes.v5n4p30
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Qualitative-quantitative analysis of the most frequent DCs across the four sub-corpora (Section 4.2.2), with essay examples contrasting Hong Kong students' First-Second-Third-All in all framing against an L1 writer's First of all-Next-Last-Therefore framing. The printed totals are 470 (HKG), 305 (SIN), 405 (THA) and 304 (ENS1).
"The total frequencies of the enumerating, resultive and summative DCs in HGN_B1_2, SIN_B1_2, THA_B1_2 and ENS1 are respectively 470, 305, 405 and 304, indicating that the Hong Kong students have a stronger tendency to rely on the DCs of the three categories than Thai students who in turn use these devices much more than do L1 and Singaporean students."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- L2 writers tend to overuse more discourse connectives than they underuse, and both L1 and L2 students have a limited range of DCs at their disposal — a broader claim this one bears on
- Hong Kong and Singaporean students are more formal in tone than L1 and Thai students when using adversative and resultive connectives — related
- Hong Kong and Singaporean L2 students underuse discourse connectives overall compared with L1 writers, while Thai students do not differ significantly — related
- L1 and L2 writers share a core set of high-frequency connectives but with strikingly different frequencies, and is nearly three times more frequent in L1 essays — related
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Hong Kong students overuse enumerating, resultive and summative discourse connectives relative to L1, Singaporean and Thai writers |
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Hong Kong students overuse enumerating, resultive and summative discourse connectives relative to L1, Singaporean and Thai writers |
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