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Download full textSiu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2014
This project was designed to try to investigate the difficulties EFL learners would have in learning to use hedging as a rhetorical device in academic writing. The participants were 136 native Cantonese-speaking EFL students who enrolled in the one-year course "English for Academic Purposes" offered by a language centre at a university…
Descriptors: College Students, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
