| Linking adverbials can help speakers in building cohesion, coherence of and oral presentation. The overall aim of this study was to investigate the use of linking adverbials of result/inference in students’ oral presentations. Two comparable corpora have been compiled for this study, namely student corpus which is compared to MICASE as the control corpus. The data in this study were the result/inference linking adverbials were obtained from English Language Education students as the student corpus. The analysis of the data was done by identifying the data that related based on the theory of Biber et al. (1999). AntConc software was utilized to find out the frequency and the most result/inference linking adverbials. Next, Log-likelihood was utilized to identify the overuse and underuse result/inference linking adverbials. Finally, a table consisting of sentences with result/inference linking adverbials that were extracted from AntConc was set to analyze the misused result/inference linking adverbials. Results showed that both corpora used almost similar proportions of result/inference linking adverbials. It is evident that so appeared as the most used result/inference linking adverbials in the two corpora. The results also showed that the student corpus tended to overuse, underuse, and misuse result/inference linking adverbials in their oral presentations. The study concluded with discussions of findings and suggestions to improve the research. |