Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams
This study investigates a selection of key quadrigrams in a learner corpus of English as a foreign language. The corpus consists of written academic essays submitted by undergraduates as assigned homework. The analysis unveils the nature of the quadrigrams in terms of frequency, in addition to exami...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2015-07-01
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| description | This study investigates a selection of key quadrigrams in a learner corpus of English as a foreign language. The corpus consists of written academic essays submitted by undergraduates as assigned homework. The analysis unveils the nature of the quadrigrams in terms of frequency, in addition to examining their cotext. It is argued that, collectively, the novice writers investigated use certain quadrigrams more often than their native counterparts. In addition, they use the same quadrigrams in inadequate cotexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2aa43602f15944d896a16f09a99c13032022-12-21T19:41:12ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloThe ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes0102-70772318-71152015-07-0136216163Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of QuadrigramsPatricia P. Bértoli0Tania M. G. Shepherd1Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroThis study investigates a selection of key quadrigrams in a learner corpus of English as a foreign language. The corpus consists of written academic essays submitted by undergraduates as assigned homework. The analysis unveils the nature of the quadrigrams in terms of frequency, in addition to examining their cotext. It is argued that, collectively, the novice writers investigated use certain quadrigrams more often than their native counterparts. In addition, they use the same quadrigrams in inadequate cotexts.https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/23980Quadrigrama-chave, Escrita Acadêmica, Corpus de Aprendiz, Inglês como Língua Estrangeira. |
| spellingShingle | Patricia P. Bértoli Tania M. G. Shepherd Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes Quadrigrama-chave, Escrita Acadêmica, Corpus de Aprendiz, Inglês como Língua Estrangeira. |
| title | Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams |
| title_full | Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams |
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| title_short | Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams |
| title_sort | academic writing an exploratory study of quadrigrams |
| topic | Quadrigrama-chave, Escrita Acadêmica, Corpus de Aprendiz, Inglês como Língua Estrangeira. |
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