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Connector Usage in the English Essay Writing of Native and Non-native EFL Speakers of English.

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Granger, Sylviane; Tyson, Stephanie – World Englishes, 1996

Focuses on cohesion in discourse and connector usage. The article uses a bottom-up approach and evaluates previous studies of learner connector usage, including literature on contrastive French-English connector usage, and hypothesizes an overuse of connectors. It is concluded that learners should be taught the semantic, stylistic, and syntactic…

Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Conjunctions, Connected Discourse