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Jiang, Lingyun – English Language Teaching, 2015
Pragmatic competence plays a very significant role in cross-cultural communication. In Chinese high school, many English teachers focus more on lexical and syntactic aspects of English. The aspect of pragmatics, however, is relatively neglected by high school English teachers. The aim of this research is to investigate pragmatic transfer in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students
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Chen, Zhenzhen – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper reported findings on a contrastive analysis of epistemic expressions in argumentative essays between NS and NNS Chinese L2 writers. Based on an examination of a NS corpus and a NNS learner corpus across four proficiency levels, the study shows there is great similarity in the total number of epistemic devices used per thousand words…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Essays