Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian Pre-university Students
In an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed...
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| description | In an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed light on the discrepancy which lies between the knowledge and production of conjunctions. The research context was an Iranian high school in Tabriz and the participants included 40 pre-university students whose knowledge of conjunctions was checked once by analyzing the results of a grammar test of conjunctions and once more through the administration of a sentence-combining test of conjunctions. Eventually, the obtained results were juxtaposed for consistency comparison, the ultimate outcome of which suggest that an individual’s demonstrable knowledge of conjunctions in a grammar test cannot be necessarily generalized to the proportional use of them; hence, a set of correct responses given to the questions of a grammar test of conjunctions is not necessarily a valid indicator of their actual use or production. Overall, it is concluded that the participants tend to choose paratactic extending conjunctions over hypotactic ones and hypotactic enhancing conjunctions over paratactic ones despite their adequate knowledge of both. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-596583508fbb4db48180ec9dcebdfc6c2022-12-21T23:42:06ZengIslamic Azad University, Tabriz BranchJournal of Applied Linguistics2008-84342538-16952012-11-01511158170519842Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian Pre-university StudentsNader AsadiMohammad Yousefi OskueeSara SalehpourIn an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed light on the discrepancy which lies between the knowledge and production of conjunctions. The research context was an Iranian high school in Tabriz and the participants included 40 pre-university students whose knowledge of conjunctions was checked once by analyzing the results of a grammar test of conjunctions and once more through the administration of a sentence-combining test of conjunctions. Eventually, the obtained results were juxtaposed for consistency comparison, the ultimate outcome of which suggest that an individual’s demonstrable knowledge of conjunctions in a grammar test cannot be necessarily generalized to the proportional use of them; hence, a set of correct responses given to the questions of a grammar test of conjunctions is not necessarily a valid indicator of their actual use or production. Overall, it is concluded that the participants tend to choose paratactic extending conjunctions over hypotactic ones and hypotactic enhancing conjunctions over paratactic ones despite their adequate knowledge of both.http://jal.iaut.ac.ir/article_519842_5921d5513ddc126687c03da1854176ce.pdfparatactic conjunctionshypotactic conjunctionsCompetenceperformance |
| spellingShingle | Nader Asadi Mohammad Yousefi Oskuee Sara Salehpour Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian Pre-university Students Journal of Applied Linguistics paratactic conjunctions hypotactic conjunctions Competence performance |
| title | Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian
Pre-university Students |
| title_full | Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian
Pre-university Students |
| title_fullStr | Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian
Pre-university Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian
Pre-university Students |
| title_short | Investigating the Use of Paratactic and Hypotactic Conjunctions among Iranian
Pre-university Students |
| title_sort | investigating the use of paratactic and hypotactic conjunctions among iranian pre university students |
| topic | paratactic conjunctions hypotactic conjunctions Competence performance |
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