Corpus-based study of conjunctive adjuncts in the writings of Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English

العناوين الأخرى

دراسة الأدوات الواصلة للجمل في كتابات الدارسين الكويتيين للغة الإنجليزية و المتحدثين الأصليين بها باستخدام دراسة الألسنية للمتون

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Mudhi, Suud K.

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Husayn, Riyad Fayiz Isa

أعضاء اللجنة

Kayid, Isam Muhammad
al-Sadun, Sabbar Sultan

الجامعة

جامعة الشرق الأوسط

الكلية

كلية الآداب و العلوم

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2013

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study is an attempt to explore the use of conjunctive adjuncts by Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English.

It aimed to investigate the frequency of occurrences of both types and items of conjunctive adjuncts in the writings of Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English.

It also aimed to examine the frequency of occurrences of position and syntactic forms of conjunctive adjuncts in writing samples of Kuwaiti learners and native speakers of English.

To achieve the goals of this study, the researcher utilized two language corpora.

The first one consisted of essays collected from Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers and the second corpus was compiled by the researcher.

He collected essays written by Kuwaiti EFL learners who are enrolled at Kuwaiti universities.

The results of this study showed that Kuwaiti EFL learners overuse conjunctive adjuncts, namely, additives and causals.

Native speakers of English use adversatives frequently.

However, Kuwaiti EFL learners do not use the various types of conjunctive adjuncts as native speakers do.

In addition, the results showed that Kuwaiti EFL learners overuse certain conjunctive adjuncts such as in addition, for example and but.

In contrast, they underuse certain conjunctive adjuncts such as however, though and also.

The study showed that in both types of writings, there is a similarity in the frequent use of initial position of conjunctive adjuncts and the frequent use of adverb phrase as a realization form.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

81

قائمة المحتويات

Table of contents.

Abstract.

Abstract in Arabic.

Chapter One : Introduction.

Chapter Two : Review of related literature.

Chapter Three : Methods and procedures.

Chapter Four : Findings of the study.

Chapter Five : Discussion and recommendations.

Conclusion.

References.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Mudhi, Suud K.. (2013). Corpus-based study of conjunctive adjuncts in the writings of Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691589

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Mudhi, Suud K.. Corpus-based study of conjunctive adjuncts in the writings of Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University. (2013).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691589

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Mudhi, Suud K.. (2013). Corpus-based study of conjunctive adjuncts in the writings of Kuwaiti EFL learners and native speakers of English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-691589

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-691589