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Altunay, Dilek – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
The connective 'but' mainly represents two different contrastive relations (Lakoff, 1971; Van Dijk, 1979; Blakemore, 1989). One of them is semantic, which shows semantic opposition and where no expectation is denied. The other is pragmatic, which shows a denial of expectation. This study aimed to investigate the use of 'but' by Turkish EFL…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semantics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Karim, Khaled; Endley, Martin J. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
This study investigated the effects of direct and indirect WCF on students' revision accuracy as well as on new pieces of writing over time. Intermediate level pre-faculty university students were divided randomly into four groups: direct, underlining only, underlining metalinguistic, and a control group. They produced two texts from two different…
Descriptors: Native Language, Error Analysis (Language), Comparative Analysis, Accuracy