Linking Adverbials in the Writings of Kurdish Private School Students in Comparison to Native Speakers
Abstract:This study is extracted from an MA thesis entitled "Linking Adverbials in the Writing of Private School Students in Erbil City". It investigates how private school students in Erbil city use linking adverbials in their essays compared to native speakers. The study consists of two corpora, a native corpus and a learner corpus. The learner corpus comprises 80 essays written by 11 th -year students from four private schools in Erbil city and the native corpus is comprised of 20 essays written by American native s… Show more
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