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Peer reviewedHinkel, Eli – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Quantitative analysis of 1,083 first language and second language academic texts establishes that advanced nonnative-English-speaking students in U.S. universities employ excessively simple syntactic and lexical constructions at median frequency rates significantly higher than those found in basic texts by native English speakers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
