Clausal and Phrasal Complexities in Nonnative Writers’ English Composition: A Comparative Analysis

• 영문명: Clausal and Phrasal Complexities in Nonnative Writers’ English Composition: A Comparative Analysis
• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회
• 저자명: 조영교(Young-Gyo Cho)
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제35권 4호, 1~18쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

This study investigates the textual features of nonnative writers’ English composition at two differing levels (clausal and phrasal). Two student groups wrote English essays and these data were analyzed for syntactic complexities using TAASSC and WordSmith Tools. The preliminary analyses were done via WordSmith in a way to identify the global features of each data set, including TTR ratio, mean of words per sentence, and density of content and function words. In the subsequent analyses, these data were processed for syntactic structures via TAASSC to identify clausal and phrasal complexities in each text. The results show that the general features reflected in WordSmith outcomes were rather peculiar in that the occurrence of function words was a lot higher than content words in frequency of word lists in both groups. The results of TAASSC analyses indicate that the highest score was found in subordinating conjunction among the clausal indexes in each data set, following which adverbial clause and clausal complement served as the second and third contributors to clausal complexities in each corpus. For the phrasal complexities, determiner served as the strongest index in the graduate group, followed by adjectival modifiers and prepositional phrases as the second and third indices. Yet such strength of determiner as an index for phrasal complexity was not verified in the undergraduate group, in which adjectival modifier was counted as the highest contributor to the phrasal complexity in the group. (234 words)

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW

III. RESEARCH METHOD

IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

V. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

VI. STUDY LIMITATIONS AND CONCLUSION

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키워드

L2 writing syntactic complexity phrasal complexity L2 text writing proficiency