Breaking the rules? A corpus-based comparison of informal features in L1 and L2 undergraduate student writing
Abstract
This study reports findings of a comparative corpus-based analysis of informality in L1 and L2 undergraduate student argumentative essays. Data consist of two corpora of student essays: 101 high-rated essays written by L1-English students and 254 high-rated essays written by ESL students in US universities. Based on a taxonomy of the 10 most common informal features cited in style manuals, we compared informal language use in L1-English and ESL...
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Title
Breaking the rules? A corpus-based comparison of informal features in L1 and L2 undergraduate student writing
Published Date
Feb 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
80
Pages
143 - 153
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