Thai students overuse the causal connective because, a pattern the article attributes to L1 influence¶
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q2 i? The causal device because is overwhelmingly frequent in Thai students' essays, ranking No. 1 among their top ten DCs, and Hong Kong and Singaporean students underuse it compared with L1 counterparts. → Hu 2015
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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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Corpus analysis of causal DCs (Section 4.2.4, Table 8), where because occurs 314 times in THA_B1_2 versus 163 in ENS1, 108 in SIN and 96 in HKG. The article attributes the Thai overuse to L1 influence, noting Thai students learning Chinese also overuse Yinwei, the Chinese equivalent of because.
"The most frequently used causal device is because which is overwhelmingly frequent in Thai students’ essays. It actually ranks No. 1 in the list of top ten most frequent DCs used by Thai students (cf. Table 4). Hong Kong and Singaporean students, however, underuse this device compared to their L1 counterparts who in turn employ significantly less than Thai students."
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Related Claims¶
- 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
- 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 — 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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Thai students overuse the causal connective because, a pattern the article attributes to L1 influence |
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Thai students overuse the causal connective because, a pattern the article attributes to L1 influence |
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