The Use of Transition Signals in Efl Academic Writing Context: A Corpus Study

Mahendra, Made Wahyu; Dewi, Ni Putu Ratna Puspita

doi:10.21274/ls.2017.9.1.87-100

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“…Regarding the frequency of CTSs, the findings were in line with Mahendra and Dewi (2017) who used their own corpus and concluded that "thus" was a dominant signal by their participants. However, investigating 146 academic expository writings, the Alshaboul et al (2013) found out that "in conclusion" occurs more frequently among other concluding terms.…”

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“…Many studies have investigated the use of transitional signals in the course of the texts (e.g., Eun & Jeon, 2009;Granger & Tyson, 1996;Hinkel, 2001;Mahendra & Dewi, 2017), but there is a dearth of research studies conducted on Concluding Transitional Signals (CTSs), especially through using corpus-based approaches on academic texts. Familiarity with these signals takes on an added importance in academic texts since learning how to write conclusions comprehensibly is a major component in an authoritative academic text.…”

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A Corpus based analysis of the application of “concluding transition signals” in academic texts

Khaghaninejad

Yadollahi

Eslami

et al. 2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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A Corpus based analysis of the application of “concluding transition signals” in academic texts

Khaghaninejad

Yadollahi

Eslami

et al. 2021

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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“…As a result, numerous EFL learner groups have so far been investigated. Examples include the French EFL learners (Gilquin & Granger, 2015;Granger & Tyson, 1996), the Swedish EFL learners (Tapper, 2005), Indonesian EFL learners (Mahendra & Dewi, 2017), the Brazilian EFL learners (Matte, 2017); Iranian EFL learners (Sabzevari, Haghverdi, & Bria, 2016), the Turkish EFL learners (Güneş, 2017;Uçar & Yukselir, 2017), Arab EFL learners (Al Mughrabi, 2017), and Chinese EFL learners (Milton & Tsang, 1993). An examination of the existing literature shows that African EFL learner groups, in general and Burundian EFL learner group in particular, have not been subject of investigation whatsoever.…”

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“…Still another study by Mahendra and Dewi (2017) examined how Indonesian students from Ganesha University of Education used connectors in their academic writing productions with focus on errors made. Ant Conc tool was used to analyze the data.…”

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The use of connectors in argumentative writing by EFL undergraduate students from the University of Burundi: A quantitative analysis

Kayonde

2021

IJREE

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Although there is a large body of literature on the use of connectors by EFL learners in argumentative writing, African language learner groups are not represented and most studies have adopted a cross-sectional approach. This paper seeks to analyze how frequently connectors are used on the basis of pseudo-longitudinal data from first, second, and third-year undergraduate students from the Institute for Applied Pedagogy, University of Burundi. The study adopted the corpus linguistic and quantitative approaches. The data were collected through 2 writing assignments given to students in 2019. In total, 622 essays, amounting to 306,664-word tokens, were collected. Data preparation followed three steps, namely, typing the handwritten essays, preparing the TXT files, and metadata for the corpus. The latter was searched using AntConc tool, on the basis of a comprehensive list of 95 connectors, classified into 6 categories. The tool availed frequency information, that is, how often each connector occurs in the corpus. Percentages were computed using XLS facility and are presented in tables and graphs. Results indicate that 19 connectors were frequently used by learners, the most frequent ones being those which add information followed by those expressing a result relationship. However, connectors expressing transition and summation were found to be rarely used in the corpus. Another discovery is that learners in all three years of study seem to have the same preferences in terms of connectors. Furthermore, cases of misuse such as wrong combinations and incorrect spelling, semantic, stylistic and syntactic errors were observed at all levels. The findings of this study can be useful to learners, teachers, and material designers.

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“…Menurut keduanya, artikel ilmiah dipublikasikan dengan harapan menginspirasi peneliti dan pengulas lain, sehingga melakukan hal yang sama dalam mengembangkan ilmu pengetahuan (Puljak & Sambunjak, 2020;Rumisek & Zemach, 2003). Tentu saja, artikel ilmiah yang baik dan menginspirasi adalah artikel yang memiliki daya kritis dan struktur argumen yang dapat diterima secara ilmiah (Eddy, 2020;Mahendra & Dewi, 2017).…”

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Article Coaching Clinic dalam Peningkatan Kapasitas Publikasi Ilmiah Dosen di Universitas Hamzanwadi

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Ahyan³

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Community Service entitled Article Coaching Clinic in Increasing the Capacity of Scientific Publications for Lecturers at Hamzanwadi University aims to improve the skills of lecturers in compiling scientific publications so that writing habits are created as an academic culture at Hamzanwadi University. This activity is carried out using the workshop method and online mentoring in accordance with the development of the articles on the results of the article clinic activities. Of the 114 articles that were submitted to this clinic, 108 of them were successfully submitted, and 85 of them were published. It was concluded that coaching clinic activities in encouraging the number of scientific publications were very strategic because the material was adapted to the needs of the journal. Furthermore, the activity continues by monitoring the progress of writing, until the article is declared ready to be submitted.

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The Use of Transition Signals in Efl Academic Writing Context: A Corpus Study

Abstract: .4). Its implication on English Language Teaching (ELT)concerning the teaching of transition signals will also be addressed.

Cited by 8 publications

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A Corpus based analysis of the application of “concluding transition signals” in academic texts

A Corpus based analysis of the application of “concluding transition signals” in academic texts

The use of connectors in argumentative writing by EFL undergraduate students from the University of Burundi: A quantitative analysis

Article Coaching Clinic dalam Peningkatan Kapasitas Publikasi Ilmiah Dosen di Universitas Hamzanwadi

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