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World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed survey of
English as it is spoken all over the world. The volumes are
organised into four groups, covering Britain, Europe, America,
Africa and Asia, and celebrate English in all its diversity. Volume
II covers continental North America. The chapters contain maps,
facts and figures, and a detailed description about English as it
is spoken in each region and are an invaluable library resource for
undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in the
diversity of the English language.
World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed survey of
English as it is spoken all over the world. The volumes are
organised into four groups, covering Britain, Europe, America,
Africa and Asia, and celebrate English in all its diversity. Volume
III covers Central America. The chapters contain maps, facts and
figures, and a detailed description about English as it is spoken
in each region and are an invaluable library resource for
undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in the
diversity of the English language.
World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed survey of
English as it is spoken all over the world. Volume I covers the
British Isles and celebrate English in all its diversity. The
chapters contain maps, facts and figures, and a detailed
description about English as it is spoken in each region and are an
invaluable library resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and
academics interested in the diversity of the English language.
In this book John McKenny explores the nature of the argumentative
writing of advanced learners of English. Having compiled a
representative corpus of essays by university students throughout
Portugal in the mould of the International Corpus of Learner
English (PORTICLE), he compiled a Corpus of Experts (CofE)
comprising editorials from broadsheet newspapers in the UK and US
which would represent accomplished L1 writing. He used a sub-corpus
of LOCNESS to represent the argumentative writing of American
undergraduates and a sub-corpus of BAWE to represent good writing
by British students. These 4corpora form a spectrum of writings
ranging from L2 learners (PORTICLE, L1 learners (LOCNESS) to
proficient L1 writers (BAWE) and expert writers (CofE). Certain
tendencies emerged when the use of formulaic sequences (FS) were
investigated. The L2 learners greatly overused certain FSs (e.g. I
think) and used fewer types of FSs. One explanation of this overuse
is the so- called "teddy-bear effect." After characterizing the
phraseological competence of L1 learners in comparison with L2
writers, ways of helping them produce more natural language are
suggested.
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