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Download full textHu, Chunyu; Li, Xuyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
Central to argumentative writing is the proper use of epistemic devices (EDs), which distinguish writers' opinions from facts and evaluate the degree of certainty expressed in their statements. Important as these devices are, they turn out to constitute a thorny area for non-native speakers (NNS). Previous research indicates that Chinese EFL…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
