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The purpose of the study is to investigate how Asian learners use formulaic sequence of language in their writing. Formulaic sequences, i.e., n-grams are considered to be one of the criteria for determining learners’ natural language use. Asian learners’ essays are explored in terms of grammatical and functional perspectives to illustrate their particular patterns of language use. To this end, the study analyses Korean, Chinese and Japanese learners’ academic essays found in the International Corpus of Learner English. It is found that Asian learners over-/under-use certain n-grams. From a viewpoint of grammatical structure, they overuse clause-related n-grams, such as I think this is. From a functional perspective, the category Other is significantly overused. It indicates that Asian learners prefer to use n-grams not included as Referential, Text organizer, or Stance which native speakers often use.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Literature Review
  2.1. Definitions and Terminology
  2.2. Theoretical Background and Previous Studies
 3. Method
  3.1. Participants and Corpus Compilation
  3.2. N-gram Lists
  3.3. Grammatical and Functional Categorization
 4. Results and Discussion
  4.1 Recurrent Patterns
  4.2. Grammatical Structures
  4.3. Functional Structures
 5. Conclusion
 References

저자

• Shinchul Hong [ Busan University of Foreign Studies ]

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