Conjunctive Adverbials (CAs) in ESP and Applied Linguistics Research Articles

The present study explores the use of conjunctive adverbials (CAs) in two native and non-native corpora compiled by the author. For this aim, 60 research articles from different prestige journals written by native (N) and nonnative (NN) writers in the fields of Psychology, Chemistry, and Applied Linguistics were chosen for analysis. On the quantitative dimension, it was found that NN researchers underuse CAs in their articles when the study was based on word-based analysis. However, on the sentence analysis no significant results were found. The paper ends with someteaching suggestions on how to teach CAs in the primary levels to help students learn the complex use of CAs in their writing.

کلیدواژه ها:

conjunctive adverbials (CAs) ، corpus-based study ، native and non-native researchers