Characterising Hedging in Undergraduate Essays by Middle Eastern Students  

Oleh:

Crompton, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 8 no. 2 (2012), page 55-78.
Topik: hedging; epistemic modality; intercultural rhetoric; pragmatics; learner corpus
Fulltext: Untitled4.pdf (507.78KB)

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To teach academic hedging, EAP instructors need to know the characteristics of their students’ current hedging skills and what to aim for. In this research the quantity and type of hedging found in texts written by undergraduate academic writers from the Middle East is characterised by comparison with the hedging found in various other kinds of texts: textbooks, research articles, native English speaker essays, newspaper editorials, and nonnative speaker essays by students from other parts of the world. It is found that the Middle Eastern students hedge less overall than native speaker writers overall and in particular that they use fewer epistemic verbs and adjectives. It is concluded that the quantity and type of hedging found in native English speaker essays and editorials could serve as useful models in the course of instruction.

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