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Badem, Nebahat; Simsek, Tugba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This quantitative study aims to reveal the most frequently used phrasal verbs (PVs) by L1 speakers of English and Turkish EFL learners in written and spoken registers. With the purpose of spotting any overuse and/or underuse by Turkish EFL learners, it compares their usage to L1 English speakers' through four corpora -- two learner corpora and two…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics
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Günes, Hilal – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
The quality of a writing highly depends on cohesion and coherence as they affect the tone of writing to a great extent. Linking adverbials (LAs) are among the types of cohesive devices which help connect ideas in a more smooth way. However, use of linking adverbials is often problematic for non-native speakers of English as they often overuse,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning