USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS
This study investigates the use of ‘on the other hand’ as a logical connector in the academic writing in Turkish doctoral students. The learner corpus used is composed of academically-advanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study also...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Informascope
2015-04-01
|
| Series: | International Online Journal of Education and Teaching |
| Online Access: | http://www.iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/70 |
| _version_ | 1797924210958401536 |
|---|---|
| author | Assiye Burgucu Tazegul |
| author_facet | Assiye Burgucu Tazegul |
| author_sort | Assiye Burgucu Tazegul |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This study investigates the use of ‘on the other hand’ as a logical connector in the academic writing in Turkish doctoral students. The learner corpus used is composed of academically-advanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study also compiled the control corpora, the first one is a corpus of academic essays written by professional native speakers and the second control corpus is The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results revealed that the overall frequency of ‘on the other hand’ used by the Turkish doctoral students were greater than that used by the professional writers. However, the Turkish doctoral students did use ‘on the other hand’ in proper manner as natives did, that is, there was not a misused situation from the point of academically-advanced non-native users. The findings also showed that, according to the COCA results, ‘on the other hand’ is more frequent in academic genre, less frequent in spoken, magazine, fiction and newspaper genres, respectively. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-10T14:59:10Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-c1d45a860d82425ea638b63e5f312039 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2148-225X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-10T14:59:10Z |
| publishDate | 2015-04-01 |
| publisher | Informascope |
| record_format | Article |
| series | International Online Journal of Education and Teaching |
| spelling | doaj.art-c1d45a860d82425ea638b63e5f3120392023-02-15T16:07:13ZengInformascopeInternational Online Journal of Education and Teaching2148-225X2015-04-012211812970USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERSAssiye Burgucu Tazegul0Anadolu UniversityThis study investigates the use of ‘on the other hand’ as a logical connector in the academic writing in Turkish doctoral students. The learner corpus used is composed of academically-advanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study also compiled the control corpora, the first one is a corpus of academic essays written by professional native speakers and the second control corpus is The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results revealed that the overall frequency of ‘on the other hand’ used by the Turkish doctoral students were greater than that used by the professional writers. However, the Turkish doctoral students did use ‘on the other hand’ in proper manner as natives did, that is, there was not a misused situation from the point of academically-advanced non-native users. The findings also showed that, according to the COCA results, ‘on the other hand’ is more frequent in academic genre, less frequent in spoken, magazine, fiction and newspaper genres, respectively.http://www.iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/70 |
| spellingShingle | Assiye Burgucu Tazegul USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS International Online Journal of Education and Teaching |
| title | USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS |
| title_full | USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS |
| title_fullStr | USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS |
| title_full_unstemmed | USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS |
| title_short | USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS |
| title_sort | use misuse and overuse of on the other hand a corpus study comparing english of native speakers and learners |
| url | http://www.iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/70 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT assiyeburgucutazegul usemisuseandoveruseofontheotherhandacorpusstudycomparingenglishofnativespeakersandlearners |