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Wijayanto, Agus – Online Submission, 2013
This paper investigated refusal strategies conducted by British native speakers of English (NSE) and Javanese learners of English (JLE). The data were elicited through discourse completion tasks (DCT) from 20 NSE and 50 JLE. Refusal strategies in Javanese were elicited from 35 native speakers of Javanese (NJ) to provide a baseline for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Green, Clarence – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study used a new computational linguistics tool, the Coh-Metrix, to investigate and measure the differences in cohesion and lexical network density between native speaker and non-native speaker writing, as well as to investigate L2 proficiency level differences in cohesion and lexical network density. This study analyzed data from three…
Descriptors: Essays, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences