The impact of grammatical aspects and discoursal features on the overall quality of EFL Academic Writing : the case of Sudanese students in five national universities
Dissertant
Abakir, al-Tayyib Daw al-Bayt Muhammad
Thesis advisor
Kambal, Muhammad Uthman Ali A.
University
Omdurman Islamic University
Faculty
Faculty of Arts
Department
Department of English Language and Literature
University Country
Sudan
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Date
2009
English Abstract
The present study has investigated the effect of grammatical aspects and discoursal features-cohesion and coherence–on the overall quality of EFL Sudanese university students’ academic written performance.
Data were collected from Departments of English at five Sudanese national universities.
The data consisted of 125 randomly selected compositions written by the subjects as answers to questions in the examinations held in different academic years.
In analyzing the data, the researcher has used a combination of two linguistic hypotheses of error analysis and discourse analysis.
The results have shown that, among the 13 types of grammatical errors identified, tense occurred most frequently followed by preposition, article, verb formation and concord, respectively.
Results about the cohesion errors and coherence misuses have shown that errors in reference received the highest percentage followed by conjunction errors and lexical cohesion errors, whereas ellipsis and substitution were not used largely by the subjects. To examine the impact of grammatical aspects ad discourse features on the overall holistic quality of academic writing of the students, a sub sample of 52 compositions were examined by two raters for the discourse features and holistic quality and then inter-rated by the researcher.
The average scores of cohesion, coherence and grammatical errors of 52 samples have been used to find out the effect of these writing basic features on the quality of the subjects’ academic writing.
The results have shown strong effect made by grammatical aspects and discourse features on the holistic quality of students’ academic writing.
Main Subjects
Topics
No. of Pages
184
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Theoretical background.
Chapter Three : Literatu review.
Chapter Four : Methodology.
Chapter Five : Results of the analysis of grammatical aspects and discourse features.
Chapter Six : Discussion and interpretation.
Chapter Seven : Summary, conclusion, pedagogical implications and recommendation.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abakir, al-Tayyib Daw al-Bayt Muhammad. (2009). The impact of grammatical aspects and discoursal features on the overall quality of EFL Academic Writing : the case of Sudanese students in five national universities. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363812
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abakir, al-Tayyib Daw al-Bayt Muhammad. The impact of grammatical aspects and discoursal features on the overall quality of EFL Academic Writing : the case of Sudanese students in five national universities. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University. (2009).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363812
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abakir, al-Tayyib Daw al-Bayt Muhammad. (2009). The impact of grammatical aspects and discoursal features on the overall quality of EFL Academic Writing : the case of Sudanese students in five national universities. (Doctoral dissertations Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363812
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-363812
