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Direct linkQin Luo; Wulin Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the uses of the light verb "get" in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing on insights from the theory of norms and exploitations (TNE). Corpus pattern analysis (CPA) is conducted to analyze the data taken from two comparable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
