The Incidence and Effects on Coherence of Marked Themes in Interlanguage Texts: A Corpus-Based Enquiry.

Green, Christopher F.; Christopher, Elsie R.; Mei, Jaquelin Lam Kam

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ERIC Number: EJ601512

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Publication Date: 2000

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The Incidence and Effects on Coherence of Marked Themes in Interlanguage Texts: A Corpus-Based Enquiry.

Green, Christopher F.; Christopher, Elsie R.; Mei, Jaquelin Lam Kam

English for Specific Purposes, v19 n2 p99-113 2000

Focuses on how Chinese writers of academic texts in English have a tendency to place topic-fronting devices and logical connectors in sentence-initial position when introducing new information. A corpus of academic writing by Chinese subjects was tagged o detect occurrences of the above. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Interlanguage, Language Universals, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Written Language

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Language: English

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