Download e-book for iPad: Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical by Eli Hinkel

By Eli Hinkel

ISBN-10: 0805838880

ISBN-13: 9780805838886

ISBN-10: 0805840338

ISBN-13: 9780805840339

This entire and certain research of moment language writers' textual content identifies explicitly and quantifiably the place their textual content differs from that of local audio system of English. The e-book relies at the result of a large-scale research of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written according to six activates. particularly, the study investigates the frequencies of makes use of of sixty eight linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical positive aspects in essays written by means of complex non-native audio system in comparison with these within the essays of local audio system enrolled in first-year composition classes. the choice of positive factors for inclusion during this research is predicated on their textual features and meanings, as pointed out in previous learn on English language grammar and lexis. Such research is effective since it can tell the educating of grammar and lexis, in addition to discourse, and function a foundation for moment language curriculum and path layout; and supply precious perception for moment language pedagogical functions of the study's findings.

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