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 of Turkish doctoral students. The learner corpus used is composed of academicallyadvanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study al...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Informascope
2015-04-01
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| Series: | International Online Journal of Education and Teaching |
| Online Access: | http://iojet.org/index.php/IOJET/article/view/70/109 |
| Summary: | This study investigates the use of ‘on the other hand’ as a logical connector in the academic
writing of Turkish doctoral students. The learner corpus used is composed of academicallyadvanced
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). Students’ own writings are made comparisons
between established writers’ papers in their field and COCA. Despite different genres,
established writers’ edited papers are preferred instead of native students’ doctoral
dissertations, it gives corpus analysis comparing with genres. 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2148-225X 2148-225X |