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Download full textNeff, JoAnne; Martinez, Francisco; Rica, Juan Pedro – 2001
This paper presents results from a contrastive study of qualification devices used in a 400,000-word corpus of English argumentative texts, written by English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Spanish university students, U.S. university students, and native professional writers (newspaper editorials in English). The study attempted to account for the…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
